Article: More than 100 scalpers caught with 340 Olympic tickets confiscated: official

More than 100 scalpers caught with 340 Olympic tickets confiscated: official

BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- A Beijing Olympics official said here Monday that police authorities have caught more than 100 scalpers and confiscated about 340 tickets for the Olympic Games.

Wang Wei, spokesman for the Beijing Organizing Committee of the 29th Olympic Games (BOCOG), said at a press conference that it is the police authorities that will decide how to deal with the confiscated tickets.

"I think policemen have done their best, as it's not easy to distinguish the situation in which tickets are actually transferred in a fair way and the situation in which the tickets are scalped for high profits," Wang ...

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