Russian authorities seize the “forged theater card mafia”!

The Russian Federal Investigation Commission has completed its investigations into a case related to the sale of fake tickets to attend performances in some famous theaters in the country.

According to the available information, “the investigators of the commission found information indicating that the two businessmen, Andrei Khartanyuk and Alexei Korenov, established several years ago a company for selling theater tickets, and later turned the matter into an electronic network for selling tickets via the Internet, and in this network fake sites similar to sites were used. Official ticket sales for some famous Russian theaters such as the Mariinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow..”

More than twenty companies and call centers in the cities of Moscow and Vladimir worked within the aforementioned network in its last stages, programmers, website designers and specialists in the field of advertising. People buy cards.
The total sales of the aforementioned network, according to the law enforcement agencies, amounted to more than one billion rubles, and the competent authorities broke up with it after receiving complaints from people that they did not receive cards that they had paid for, and complaints from people who complained about the sometimes exorbitant prices of cards.

Russian media reported that the relevant authorities had arrested the perpetrators, with the exception of Andrei Khartanyuk, who went into hiding with his mother, and that the Mariinsky Theater would file a lawsuit to recover about 50 million rubles from the “scammers.”