Seven people arrested for speculation with tickets for Alive

The Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE) arrested seven people for speculating on ticket sales for the Alive festival, which begins Thursday, and filed 10 criminal cases on the subject, police said. ] "To date, ten criminal cases have been introduced, seven people have been arrested in flagrante delicto and three persons have been identified in different parts of the country, including in the cities of Coimbra, Maia, Torres Vedras, Porto, Lisbon, Setúbal and Pombal, for the practice of Crime of Speculation, on the value of official ticket sales for concerts, and the sites / platforms studied for the supply and availability of speculative notes, " ASAE in a statement., adding that 20 tickets (12 daily and eight three-day passes) were seized.
Addressing Lusa, the Inspector General of ASAE, Pedro Portugal Gaspar, explained that and that the action is part of a "strategy that ASAE has already developed in recent times," to "fight the speculation of ticket sales to the above the nominal value "in" major events cu "Musical events are an important component of our attention, as are sporting phenomena, mainly major events where the demand is greater than the offer or where there are competing events."
"Musical events are an important component of our attention. conditions for a distortion of the normal rules to take place and
The tickets in question, priced between 65 and 149 euros, for daily tickets and tickets, were respectively sold at prices ranging from from 100 to 230 euros. euros.
"There is of course a relatively new situation here in the most recent times when searching for this online offer.This means that advertising is becoming more and more the use of digital and digital media. as a result we are following the new trends of information transmission, so that the physical transaction can be completed and flagrant in this type of situation. "
According to ASAE, the accused were translated in court, with suspensions of process following the payment of amounts to Private Institutions of Social Solidarity (IPSS) or community work.
ASAE also recalled that
The return of the Arctic Monkeys to Portugal, with a new album released in May, marks today the first day of the 12th edition of the Alive festival, which takes place on the Passeio
The return of the Arctic Monkeys in Portugal is also a return to the main stage of NOS Alive, The band's first album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, will be released in 2014. This time, the British band will perform at the Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the group's sixth album and the quietest of them all.