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Article: Beijing police seize 276 Olympic ticket scalpers
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 19, 2008
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Beijing police seize 276 Olympic ticket scalpers
BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Beijing police have seized 276
suspects for scalping Olympic Games tickets in the past five days,
including 37 foreigners, a police spokesman said here on Tuesday.
Police also confiscated 613 Games tickets in the latest crackdown
on scalpers that started on Aug. 15 around major Olympic venues,
such as the National Stadium, also known as "Bird's Nest", the
National Aquatics Center, or the "Water Cube", and the Beijing
Olympic Basketball Gymnasium, said Zhang Xiaoguang of the Beijing
Municipal Public Security Bureau.
The suspects were accused of reselling the tickets at inflated
prices, several times the face ...