Suspected ticket resale online Metropolitan staff arrested 50 million yen sales or 12:19 on November 28
Tokyo Metropolitan officials were arrested for illegally reselling professional baseball tickets on the Internet. Unauthorized resale of tickets online is prohibited by the new law that took effect in June.
Arrested by a staff member of the Chiyoda Metropolitan Tax Office in Tokyo, suspect Hiroshi Yamauchi (35).
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, there are suspicions that, from July to October, four tickets including professional baseball all-star games were sold on the Internet resale site for about 56,000 yen, which is higher than the list price.
In addition, members registered with multiple professional baseball teams and artist fan clubs using their own and family names to purchase tickets, and have been resold on the Internet over 1600 times since 7 years ago. It means that 50 million yen was sold.
He accused the investigation and stated that he started reselling tickets to make up for the failure to invest in stocks. He was late in his career and wanted to close the salary gap with the same period. That is.
The act of reselling tickets higher than the regular price on the Internet without the consent of the organizer is newly prohibited by the “Ticket Unauthorized Resale Act”, which was enforced in June.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, it is the first time that you have been arrested for violating this law.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government commented, “We are confirming the facts, but if it is true, we are very sorry.”