Two charged with illegal ticket touting
Reuters - Friday 02 July 2010, 17:00
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa arrested two
people on charges of illegally selling World Cup tickets,
officials said on Friday.
Police seized laptops and 122 World Cup tickets during a
raid at their hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg, and took one
Briton and a Zimbabwean-born U.S. passport holder Brendan Keith
Evans into custody.
Tickets touts in South Africa are cashing in on the world's
most-watched sport event, selling tickets for the final at up to
$4,000.
Both accused appeared in the special World Cup court on
Thursday where they were both granted bail of 15,000 rand
($1,940) each. They will appear in court again on July 28.
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