Starting from October 1, the Bolshoi Theater began issuing personalized tickets, which can be purchased by presenting an ID document. This was stated in telegram channel cultural institution.
The viewer’s personal information will be included in the ticket. If the information specified on the ticket does not match the passport information, the audience will not be allowed to attend the show. The Bolshoi said that they wanted to prevent ticket speculation in this way.
court at the beginning of September carried out A decision was made against the members of the “ticket mafia” who sold tickets to movie theaters in the capital through copy sites. The defendants were sentenced to imprisonment from 4.5 to 7.5 years, as well as a fine of 400 to 600 thousand rubles.
Investigation into the case of the “ticket mafia”, which the Kommersant newspaper called an organized crime group, ended In January 2022. The investigation revealed that the total turnover of the network reached 1 billion rubles.
Fraudsters illegally used trademarks of seven cultural institutions in the country: the Bolshoi, Maly and Mariinsky theatres, the State Theater of Nations, the Russian State Academic Youth Theatre, the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Spasskaya Tower International Cultural Centre.
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