UK Trading Standards arrests four in anti-tout raids
Yesterday's raids, by National Trading Standards officers, form part of a probe into the "practices of businesses that buy and sell tickets in bulk"
News By IQ | 13 December 2017
British consumer protection body National Trading Standards has made four arrests as part of its investigation into the business activities of large-scale secondary ticket sellers.
The existence of the investigation, which began in April 2017 and focuses on “businesses that buy and sell tickets in bulk”, was revealed last month when news broke that competition watchdog CMA had raided the London offices of StubHub and Viagogo. It is believed to be codenamed ‘Operation Electra’.
The arrests are linked to alleged breaches of…
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