Two men who fraudulently resold tickets to various events, including Ed Sheeran concerts and the Harry Potter And The Cursed Child play, have been ordered to pay back more than £6m
Two men who fraudulently resold tickets to various events, including Ed Sheeran concerts and the Harry Potter And The Cursed Child play, have been ordered to pay back more than £6m.
Ticket touts Peter Hunter, 53, and David Thomas Smith, 68, were prosecuted and sentenced to prison terms in February 2020, but were handed the confiscation order on Wednesday.Appearing at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday, Hunter and Smith were found to have benefited from their crimes by a total of £8,750,732.00.
They were told they needed to repay a total of £6,167,522.02 in the next three months or face an additional eight years in prison. The pair ran BZZ Limited, a multi-million pound limited company, which they used to purchase and resell hundreds of tickets at inflated prices for events such as concerts by Madness, McBusted and other mainstream acts.
The hearing marked the latest in a line of cases associated with the UK's first successful convictions against a company fraudulently reselling tickets on a large scale.
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