Ticket scalpers turn attention to Paralympics

Beijing police caught 134 scalpers selling Paralympic Games tickets near competition venues and detained 99 in a single day, local media reported yesterday. Police swept up scalpers for "disturbing social order" at two entrances of the main Olympic...

Beijing police caught 134 scalpers selling Paralympic Games tickets near competition venues and detained 99 in a single day, local media reported yesterday.

Police swept up scalpers for "disturbing social order" at two entrances of the main Olympic Green and a nearby subway station, the Beijing News said, citing the capital's public security authority.

Scalping was rife at last month's Beijing Olympics, with locals and foreigners seen openly offering tickets outside venues, despite government pledges to crack down.

Beijing is set to host the best attended Paralympics ever. To ensure good attendances, authorities have given away 620,000 tickets to students, the disabled and pensioners.

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