Same man who sold fake tickets for hockey worlds behind Euro football ticket fraud

The same Czech man who confessed in May to selling fake tickets for the Hockey World Championships in Prague has also been found to have defrauded over 20 people with tickets for the UEFA European Football Championship, which starts in Germany on Friday.

In addition to the 20 people to whom he sold at least 360 counterfeit tickets to the Hockey Worlds for almost CZK 2.28 million, the man has now been found to have also sold at least 14 fake tickets that he made himself, all with the same QR code and barcode, for the Euro football championship for CZK 290,000, and another nine tickets worth at least CZK 68,000 which unsuspecting victims paid for but never received.

According to the police, other fake tickets may still be in circulation. People in possession of fake tickets are advised to contact the police to help document the extent of the fraud.