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Article: Police seize 6,600 ticket scalpers over China's Lunar New Year travel peak
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 5, 2009
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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 ...