Article: Police seize 6,600 ticket scalpers over China's Lunar New Year travel peak

Police seize 6,600 ticket scalpers over China's Lunar New Year travel peak

BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police said Thursday they had seized more than 6,600 train ticket scalpers when millions of Chinese scrambled to get trains home over the Lunar New Year holiday season.

Police had seized more than 40,000 scalped tickets, with a total face value of about 5 million yuan (730,000 U.S. dollars) since Jan. 14 when the Ministry of Public Security launched a nationwide campaign to curb illegal ticket deals.

They had also ...

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