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Scalpers!

Published: Monday | July 30, 2012 Comments 0

LONDON (AP):

A German man and a Slovakian woman were charged on Saturday by British police over alleged attempts to illegally resell tickets to the Olympic opening ceremony, while 16 others have been arrested in the last two days over similar offences.

Scotland Yard said that 57-year-old Wolfgang Menzel and 30-year-old Maria Bukranova were charged after plain clothes officers carried out an operation against ticket scalpers - known as ticket touts in Britain - on Friday night.

The two - and five others - were arrested just hours before the ceremony began at London's Olympic stadium.

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