It is a fact that the Louvre Museum He is not going through his best moment. While trying to recover from the historic robbery that took several jewels from Napoleon’s collection on October 19, this Thursday the museum management confirmed that a dozen police officers carried out an operation this week to dismantle a “large-scale” fraud ring of tickets to the most visited museum in the world.
This operation was carried out after the institution itself presented a report to the authorities, following suspicions “of the existence of a network that organizes large-scale fraud” since the summer of 2024. During the police operation, A dozen people were arrested, including museum agents and tour guides. Additionally, “three vehicles were seized, as well as 130,000 euros in cash, almost 200,000 euros in bank accounts and several safe deposit boxes with the same amount of money in effect,” according to a police source. The Parisian.
According to the Louvre, it has been facing a resurgence and diversification of ticket fraud for some time and, in response, has implemented a structured action plan in collaboration with its staff and the police.
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