As Dan Tri reported, this year the SEA Games 31 Organizing Committee authorized units to sell tickets in the form of QR codes to check-in on a single application. The number of tickets sold is 19,000 tickets. SEA Games 31 men’s soccer final tickets have two denominations: 300,000 VND and 500,000 VND.
However, on the black market at this time, tickets for the final match are being sold at twice the price. 30 times. Specifically, a pair of tickets for stand B2, door 7, is priced at 15 million VND. If you buy more, the price will be reduced to 145 million VND/pair.
Not only for the opening match of the men’s soccer team. U23 Vietnam at SEA Games 31, but at many other matches, there are often “ticket sellers” with prices 34 times higher than the original price.
Before the information Many readers are upset because true fans cannot buy tickets and there are tickets for sale on the black market, showing that the organization of ticket sales is not yet fair and transparent, giving brokers the opportunity to make a profit.
Readers Tung Thi wondered: “So the law gives up or is ticket selling now a profession that can be operated openly?”.
Answer this questionLaw Professor Nguyen Trong Nghia – LSX Law Firm said that not only in Vietnam but also in many places around the world, there is a problem of “ticket-buying”, especially before big events!
< p>However, there is still no definition of “ticket ticketing” according to Vietnamese law. The Vietnamese Dictionary of Bach Khoa Dictionary Publishing House defines “ticketing” as buying and reselling to make a profit. Ticket “selling” in this case is understood as the act of buying tickets for events and then reselling them at a higher price than the original price of that event offered by the organizer.
If it’s just a normal sale, it wouldn’t be called “ticket selling”; All cases of “ticket arbitrage” are cases where there is some way to cheat in order to have tickets sold outside of normal regulations.
Is ticket peddling illegal? ?
Currently, Vietnam’s current law does not have specific regulations on sanctions for “ticket-fixing” behavior. Therefore, in principle, citizens are allowed to do what the law does not prohibit.
Tickets Football or art programs and events are considered legal “goods” and are allowed to be traded. Therefore, the fact that fans buy them back at prices many times higher than the original price is due to the agreement between the two The party agrees to buy and sell and the law does not prohibit this.
However, buying a ticket can be understood as automatically accepting the conditions set by the ticket issuer (written on the ticket or other regulations). (previously issued by the ticket issuer) includes conditions for buying and using tickets to ensure reasonable distribution of tickets to the right audience, ensuring security and safety for the event and benefits for the issuer as well as ticket buyers. In case the buyer violates the regulations set by the seller, the seller has the right to apply the measures specified in the conditions of purchase and use of tickets to the buyer, for example: If the seller stipulates that the user must be the user. If you register to buy a ticket in your name, if it is not the seller, you have the right not to allow that person to enter the stadium…
At the same time, the law will punish “ticket brokers” who engage in soliciting customers, leading to disorder. public and obstructing traffic. In addition, ticket holders can also be prosecuted for criminal liability if they arbitrarily print fake tickets or reprint tickets using high technology to deceive buyers in order to appropriate property.
Level What are the penalties?
Acts that disrupt public order are the most common acts that “tickets” often commit. Ticket buying and selling often takes place around the stadium, art performance areas where crowds of people gather with acts such as fighting for customers, cursing and swearing, causing insecurity and order in the surrounding area. The sanction will be based on Article 5 of Decree No. 167/2013/ND-CP. Specifically:
Warning or fine from 100,000 – 300,000 VND for disorderly behavior in theaters, cinemas, cultural houses, clubs, art performance places, places where activities are held sports, festivals, exhibitions, fairs…
Fine from 500,000 – 1,000,000 VND for gathering many people in public places to cause public disorder.< /em>
Fine from 2,000,000 – 3,000,000 million VND for one of the following acts: Enticing or inciting others to cause trouble and disrupt public order; Illegally gathering large numbers of people in public places or prohibited areas.
In addition, depending on the nature and severity of acts that disrupt public order, they can also be prosecuted. criminal offense of “Disturbing public order” according to Article 318 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended in 2017:
“Article 318. Crime of disturbing public order
- A person who disrupts public order and adversely affects social security, order, and safety has either been administratively sanctioned for this act or has been convicted. If this crime has not been erased, but if you continue to violate it, you will be fined from 5,000,000 VND to 50,000,000 VND, non-custodial reform for up to 02 years or imprisonment from 03 months to 02 years.
- Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punished with imprisonment from 2 to 7 years:
a) In an organized manner;
b) Using weapons or committing destructive acts;
c) Causing serious traffic obstruction or causing disruption to public activities;
d) Inciting others to cause trouble; d) Assaulting a person who intervenes to protect public order; e) Dangerous recidivism.”
As for the act of obstructing road traffic, if the “ticket” stops and parks the vehicle (motorcycle) on the urban road to Selling tickets that obstruct traffic will be fined from 100,000 to 200,000 VND according to Article 6 of Decree No. 46/2016/ND-CP.
The case constitutes a crime. stipulated in Article 202 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended and supplemented in 2017 on the crime of trading in fake stamps and fake tickets, offenders can be fined 30 – 100 million VND, non-custodial reform for up to 3 years or imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years .
At the same time, the ticket seller may also be held criminally liable if he or she arbitrarily prints fake tickets or reprints tickets using high technology to deceive buyers in order to appropriate the property Appropriating 2 million VND or more will be criminally prosecuted for the crime of “Fraudulent appropriation of property” according to Article 174 of the 2015 Penal Code, amended in 2017.
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