Article: Beijing police seize 276 Olympic ticket scalpers

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 ...

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