UK ticket touts ordered to repay over £6m

Peter Hunter and David Smith, who operated as the company BZZ Limited, were convicted in 2020 of fraudulently reselling event tickets

News By James Hanley | 15 December 2022

The defendants purchased more than 750 Ed Sheeran tickets in 2017 

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