Source: UKPA, 7th May 2012
With the last remaining tickets for the 2012 London Olympics going on sale over the next few days, The London Metropolitan Police service are sending out a warning about fraudulent ticket sales and illegal ticket touts.
Eight suspected ticket touts have been arrested as part of a clampdown ahead of this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. Plain clothes officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Podium swooped on the suspected touts near Wembley Stadium, before the kick-off of Saturday’s FA Cup final clash between Chelsea and Liverpool. Eight men, aged between 22 and 45, were held on suspicion of ticket touting and remain in custody at a north London police station.
Operation Podium is dedicated to serious and organised crime affecting the Olympic economy. Detective Superintendent Nick Downing said: “Ticket touting is an illegal business run by people to gain financially through the exploitation of clubs and their fans…