{"id":42221,"date":"2017-01-30T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/royal-albert-hall-president-to-be-grilled-by-mps-over-ticket-abuse\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T00:40:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:40:45","slug":"royal-albert-hall-president-to-be-grilled-by-mps-over-ticket-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/royal-albert-hall-president-to-be-grilled-by-mps-over-ticket-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Albert Hall president to be grilled by MPs over ticket abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTicket reselling sites like Viagogo are also to be questioned over concerns that tickets to events from charity balls to Hamilton are being resoldThe president of the Royal Albert Hall and the multi-millionaire founder of controversial ticket resale website Viagogo are to be grilled by MPs in the second phase of an inquiry into \u201cticket abuse\u201d.MPs on the department for culture, media and sport committee are planning a fresh evidence session, after they were told in a previous hearing about the relationship between powerful ticket touts and \u201csecondary\u201d resale websites. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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