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Inside job?
Police question ticket agency officials
Posted: Thursday June 25, 1998 11:04 AM
PARIS (AP) -- Four senior officials of a U.S. company at the center of a
World Cup ticket-fraud probe were detained for questioning Friday.
The four officials, who police refused to identify, were being questioned
in connection with Prime Sports International's report of the burglary of
15,000 World Cup tickets from its Paris office last week.
PSI said that thieves had scaled a heater and broken into a safe that
contained the tickets.
But World Cup organizers quickly questioned the burglary, saying that
while PSI listed tickets for last week's match between France and Saudi
Arabia match among those stolen, a check at the Stade de France found
the seats occupied with the tickets' buyers.
One of 17 World Cup-approved travel agencies, PSI was already under
investigation after a Madrid travel agency complained that it never
received the 1,000 tickets it bought from PSI.
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