Counterfeit tickets flood soccer match

Counterfeit tickets flood soccer match

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Officials were probing the use of forged
tickets Monday after 25,000 spectators crammed into a stadium at
a Southeast Asian Games soccer match where 18,000 tickets were
printed.

About 2,000 fans with genuine tickets could not enter the
Petaling Jaya Stadium late Sunday and watched the match between
Malaysia and Indonesia on a screen outside the venue, the Malay
Mail newspaper reported.

Mohd Zaki Abdul Rahman, chief operating officer for the SEA
Games, was quoted as saying that a full investigation would be
conducted.

The Malay Mail reported that the forgeries discovered were
almost identical to the real tickets, which cost 6 ringgit
(US$1.58). The only differences were in the spelling of
"September" and a sponsor's logo.