Ghanaian fans arrested in Qatar for selling match tickets
Some Ghana football fans have been arrested in Qatar for selling World Cup match tickets and they have also been charged to court hours to Black Stars clash with Uruguay.
The Ghanaian team have so far enjoyed the support of their fans in Qatar since they started their campaign at the World Cup and they will surely need them in subsequent games.
Ghana started their game at the World Cup with a defeat to Portugal which was a tie the Black Stars proved themselves.
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According to Kwadwo Sheldon on Twitter, some fans were said to have been caught selling tickets.
See the tweet below:
Infoexpert24 recalls that six days from the kick-off of the world cup, Qatar announced the arrests of three persons for illegally selling the 2022 World Cup ticket.
It added that the three foreign men have been detained outside official ticketing centres in Doha.
The interior ministry said, “three people of different nationalities” were arrested and now face criminal proceedings.
However, the ministry did not specify the nationalities of those arrested, but only stated the men were caught “reselling tickets” outside “official outlets.”
Queues form daily outside FIFA’s main ticketing centre in central Doha, with people hoping to purchase sought-after match tickets.
The statement said those arrested could face fines of up to 250,000 riyals ($68,000) for each ticket they were found to have sold.
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FIFA and the Qatari government repeatedly warn about fake World Cup merchandise.
Last week, authorities reported the seizure of 144 counterfeit World Cup trophies.
Previously, car number plates illegally using World Cup imagery and counterfeit clothes using official logos have been targeted by authorities.
Last year a factory producing perfume bottles with World Cup branding was raided.
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