Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics are investigating the case involving the purchase of the nearly 6900 tickets through fraudulent means. These tickets are worth about 180 million Yen which calculates to about 1.36 million dollars. As for the fraudulent means by which they had been purchased by people is through an online lottery system for the residents of Japan.
The interest in the demand of the tickets for the next year’s major sporting event is at least 10 times the actually supply.
Due to this rise in demand of the tickets, the government of Japan implemented a new law which states that the ticket scalping will result in a fine of about 1 million yen along with 1 year of jail time or both.
Still, this law seems to have some loopholes like not being applicable if the tickets are given away for free or have been passed on as gifts or the purchase of the tickets without the name of the purchaser.
These loopholes apply to majority of the tickets that are being sent from IOC (International Olympic Committee), the 206 national Olympic committees along with many other major sponsors.
Organizers are now in process of voiding those tickets which have been bought through the use of fraudulent IDs.
A spokesperson of the Tokyo Organizers said, “We are in discussion with the Japanese police on the matter. If there are more cases with reports of tickets being purchased through unauthorized means, then we will take action as needed.”
As for another matter, the organizers have also announced the results for the ticket lottery held for residents of Japan.
According to organizers, nearly 1.4 million people applied for the phase of August and out of those only about 120000 were successful in getting 350000 tickets.
Tokyo organizers also stated that as of now, they have sold nearly 3.75 million tickets for the next year’s event from the lotteries and they plan to give the Japanese people nearly 70 to 80 percent of the total 7.8 million tickets.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics already seem to be a great hit as compared to the ones held in Pyeongchang, South Korea bad Rio de Janeiro where majority of tickets were left unsold along with numerous events having poor attendance.
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