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Article: Beijing police detain 60 for scalping Olympic tickets
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 24, 2008
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Beijing police detain 60 for scalping Olympic tickets
BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Beijing police have detained 60
suspects for scalping Olympic Games tickets in the past two months,
a police spokesman said here on Thursday.
The suspects, apprehended since May 5 when the third phase of
domestic ticket sales started, were accused of reselling the tickets
at inflated prices of up to 100 times the face value, a Beijing
Municipal Public Security Bureau spokesman said.
In one case, police detained a suspect surnamed Zhao in Xuanwu
District who attempted to scalp four tickets to the China-U.S. men's
basketball preliminary match. Each cost 50 yuan (7.35 U.S. dollars),