A Guangzhou railway policeman collects fake
train tickets on January 12, 2008. [Photo: nddaily.com]
Train ticket counterfeiter Wu was sent to
prison in Guangzhou on January 20, 2008. [Photo:
nddaily.com]
Train tickets are the hottest products on the market before the
annual travel peak around China's Spring Festival period, and
railway police are kept busy chasing counterfeiters and
scalpers.
Earlier this month, police in the southern Chinese city of
Guangzhou seized the largest fake train ticket producer of this
year, the Nanfang City News reported.
Wu, 36, worked in a textile printing house for three years and
learned how to typeset. Last month, he bought the necessary
machines, organized several countrymen with criminal records, and
started printing fake train tickets.
After receiving a report from a buyer on January 9, the railway
police began a three-day investigation, netting Wu and his
accomplices on January 12. More than 30,000 fake tickets were
confiscated.
The tickets look very professional, police said.
"The railway station needs only five seconds to print a ticket,
and I need five minutes," Wu confided after being caught.
(CRI January 22, 2008)
