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.