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Directors Mika Kaurismäki
Composers Tuure Kilpeläinen ja Kaihon Karavaani
Mauri Sumén
Ilari Edelman
Screenplay Mika Kaurismäki
Sami Keski-Vähälä
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Road North is a 2012 Finnish comedy film directed by Mika Kaurismäki.

Ed Sheeran ticket touts locked in 'milestone' Leeds case

Feb 16,2020 7:57 am

The Internet touts, touts sold tickets for Ed Sheeran (image), concerts, and other high-profile events

Two internet-ticket, who re-sold tickets worth millions of pounds for events, including Ed Sheeran and Adele concerts were thrown into prison.

Peter hunter and David Smith are traded, such as the Ticket-Wiz and BZZ. About five years BZZ tickets sold for £9. 3m More Than they paid for them, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Sheeran's manager Stuart Camp, gave evidence to the £75 seats for a charity gig were discovered on sale for £7,000.

Hunter was in prison for four years and Smith for two and a half years.

It has been described by the National trading standards as a "landmark case", and was "The First successful prosecution against a company in a fraudulent re-sale of tickets on a large scale".

sentencing the pair, judge Mushtaq Khokhar said: "This was a case of persistent dishonesty for A Number of years.

"A lot of people, in this case paid a lot More Than you would have paid. "

In a year, Peter hunter and David Smith , who are married, more Sheeran tickets bought as 750 for events alone.

you can use multiple identities and computers-robot, to buy tickets, sell them at inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites, including Viagogo, GetMein, StubHub and Seatwave.

Hunter told The Jury how he started as a friend without a credit card asked him to buy tickets to see Madonna, and he realized that he could re-sell to additional purchases to a huge Profit .

The case has provoked calls for a wider criminal investigation into the secondary ticketing market

If your home was raided, investigators found 112 different payment cards in 37 names.

The couple used at least 97 different names, 88 post-withdraw addresses, and More Than 290 E-Mail addresses, platform-restrictions.

hunter, 51, and Smith, 66, of Crossfield Road, north London, claimed they were a trusted and reliable source of tickets.

The Jury found her guilty of three counts of fraudulent trading And One of possession of articles for Fraud .

FanFair Alliance, supported by the managers of artists such as Ed Sheeran , welcomed the outcome

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trading standards, fraud, ticketing, ed sheeran, live music

Source of news: bbc.com

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