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NBI rounds up 6 scalpers of UAAP basketball tickets


MANILA, Philippines – Government agents rounded up six more scalpers last Sunday for selling outrageously priced tickets to semi-final basketball games of the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP), which was being held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) nabbed the scalpers – one of them an Araneta Coliseum guard – in a sting operation. The suspects were selling tickets for the games between De La Salle University and Far Eastern University and between Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the East. The NBI deployed a team to conduct surveillance at the Coliseum. An agent managed to enter into a deal to buy a ticket from a certain "Bong," later identified Samuel Velasco of Malolos, Bulacan. Bong agreed to meet the agent at the Katipunan Avenue station of the Metro Rail Transit, where he would bring the Patron ticket, which he was selling for P4,000, though it was originally priced only at P250. Agents arrested Bong right after tickets and money changed hands. They found another patron ticket in his possession. A follow-up operations led to the arrest of the five others suspects: • Jerry Ysmael of Concepcion, Marikina City, who had 11 Upper Box A tickets. He said he was selling the P150 tickets for P700 each • Rene Sioco of Singalong, Manila, who had six Upper Box Tickets • Delfin Cabiling of Mambugan, Antipolo City, who had an Upper Box ticket, which he was planning to sell for P1,000 • Jabin Brian Valsorable, a security guard at the Araneta Coliseum and resident of Famy, Laguna, who had three P95 Upper Box B tickets which he planned to sell for P500 each. • Lorenzo Noora of Calumpang, Marikina City, who had two General Admission tickets, worth only P55, but which he was planning to sell for P 300 each Cabiling, Valsorable, and Noora were arrested at the Araneta Coliseum while in the act of selling the overpriced UAAP tickets. The six will face charges of violating Quezon City's Anti-Scalping Law. The NBI will continue to go after scalpers, according to Arnel Dalumpines head of the bureau's Special Task Force, which conducted the sting operation. The NBI was acting on the complaint letter of Manuel Atacador, operations chief of Uniprom Inc., the marketing arm of Araneta Coliseum. Early this month, the NBI arrested six scalpers also selling overpriced tickets to UAAP basketball games. - GMANews.TV
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