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Police smash fake Expo ticket gang
By Zhang Xuanchen |
July 23, 2010, Friday
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POLICE have cracked their first fake Expo tickets scam and detained six men for allegedly producing 500 bogus tickets.
Police smashed two workshops and confiscated 14 bogus tickets, films and printing machines in Zhejiang Province. Suspects destroyed the other tickets before they were arrested on June 25, Shanghai police said today.
The suspects surnamed Chen, Zhang and Li started making fake tickets and commemorative stamp albums for the Expo in October 2009, police said.
Li, who was arrested on June 13 in Henan Province, sold the albums and tickets to two wholesalers surnamed Song and Long at a stamp market in Beijing.
Song and Long then sold the fakes to a salesman surnamed Tu, who worked for a Beijing-based media company. Tu made random phone calls to find buyers.
About 10 fake tickets have trickled on to the market and are still in circulation, said police.
The first fake was discovered on May 26, when a visitor was stopped at the Expo entrance because his ticket was invalid.
Police smashed two workshops and confiscated 14 bogus tickets, films and printing machines in Zhejiang Province. Suspects destroyed the other tickets before they were arrested on June 25, Shanghai police said today.
The suspects surnamed Chen, Zhang and Li started making fake tickets and commemorative stamp albums for the Expo in October 2009, police said.
Li, who was arrested on June 13 in Henan Province, sold the albums and tickets to two wholesalers surnamed Song and Long at a stamp market in Beijing.
Song and Long then sold the fakes to a salesman surnamed Tu, who worked for a Beijing-based media company. Tu made random phone calls to find buyers.
About 10 fake tickets have trickled on to the market and are still in circulation, said police.
The first fake was discovered on May 26, when a visitor was stopped at the Expo entrance because his ticket was invalid.
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