FIFA Moves to Unravel Mystery Behind Ticketing Sales Scam

Marketing Director, Federation of International Football Association(FIFA) has said it will today wade into allegations of ticketing scam at the ongoing World Cup in Brazil.

FIFA Marketing Director, Mr. Thierry Weil has explained FIFA is fully supporting the local authorities in their investigations into ticket scalping and any illegal sale of FIFA World Cup tickets.

“FIFA’s ticketing experts will tomorrow (Friday, 4 July 2014) analyse the seized tickets in order to validate them as well as to assist the authorities in identifying the source of the tickets and track down the channels of those tickets. FIFA and the local authorities will ensure that any violations will be sanctioned accordingly”, he said.

He said FIFA takes a firm stance against any form of violation of the ticketing regulations and that the organisation is very pleased with the great collaboration with the security authorities to clamp down any unauthorized ticket sales.

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‘Furthermore, FIFA wants to confirm that Mohamadou Lamine Fofana was never accredited for the FIFA World Cup nor had any access to any official car pool of the FIFA World Cup”, Weil said in a statement.