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Article: Police seize China's largest train ticket scalper clan
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 21, 2006
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Police seize China's largest train ticket scalper clan
ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police have seized the
country's largest ring of ticket scalpers, an extended family in the
central Henan Province that scalped at least 100,000 train tickets in
the past five years.
The ring of 11 members have earned more than 400,000 yuan (50,000
U.S. dollars) since early 2001 by buying up train tickets at the
railway station and reselling them at higher prices.
Many travelers had to pay a surcharge of 30 yuan or 40 yuan (3.75
U.S. dollars to 5 dollars) for a hard-won ticket because it is very
difficult to get one in a country with 1.3 billion people,
particularly on the eve of holidays.
Yang ...