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Store couple in tickets scandal
By Dong Zhen |
January 21, 2009, Wednesday
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RAILWAY police have detained the owners of a gift store said to have sold more than 100 train tickets at inflated prices.
Investigators visited the store near Shanghai Railway Station and found the couple with 47 unsold tickets on Sunday.
When police questioned a passenger at the station, they were told the ticket for Zhengzhou in Henan Province had been bought from an "agent store" for 100 yuan in commission in addition to the 130-yuan face value.
Undercover police visited the store and found advertising posters outside promoting its "agent ticketing business."
They watched as a number of people came to store to pay for tickets they had booked.
The store owner, a woman surnamed Wang, allegedly confessed she didn't have a license to sell train tickets as an agent and that she had sold more than 100 tickets, charging a fee of between 50 or 100 yuan for each ticket.
Her husband, surnamed Zhou, was also detained. He was queuing up to buy more tickets at the railway station when caught, police said.
Investigators visited the store near Shanghai Railway Station and found the couple with 47 unsold tickets on Sunday.
When police questioned a passenger at the station, they were told the ticket for Zhengzhou in Henan Province had been bought from an "agent store" for 100 yuan in commission in addition to the 130-yuan face value.
Undercover police visited the store and found advertising posters outside promoting its "agent ticketing business."
They watched as a number of people came to store to pay for tickets they had booked.
The store owner, a woman surnamed Wang, allegedly confessed she didn't have a license to sell train tickets as an agent and that she had sold more than 100 tickets, charging a fee of between 50 or 100 yuan for each ticket.
Her husband, surnamed Zhou, was also detained. He was queuing up to buy more tickets at the railway station when caught, police said.
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