Police detain 6,600 scalpers

Police said yesterday they had detained more than 6,600 train ticket scalpers over the Lunar New Year holiday season.

Police seized more than 40,000 scalped tickets with a face value of about 5 million yuan ($730,000) since Jan 14 when the Ministry of Public Security launched a nationwide campaign to curb illegal ticket sales.

They also broke up more than 700 gangs involved in producing or selling fake train tickets, the ministry said.