Liverpool ban 432 and £1.2m seized in ticket tout investigation

Almost 700,000 ticket registrations were analysed Club worked with Merseyside police economic crime team More than £1.2m in assets have been seized and 432 lifetime bans issued as part of a clampdown by Liverpool FC and Merseyside police on ticket touting. In the first operation of its kind between a Premier League club and their local police authority, Liverpool’s investigations team worked with the force’s economic crime team to analyse almost 700,000 ticket registrations last season and to focus on the laundering of criminal proceeds from illicit ticket sales. The joint investigation has le

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