How Decades-Long Ticket Scam Cost Paris’ Louvre More than Rs 100 Crore

How decades-long ticket scam cost Paris’ Louvre more than Rs 100 crore

The Louvre museum has been hit by a $12 million (Rs 107.3 crore) ticket fraud scheme. The scamming network, involving the museum employees and tour guides, had been running for over a decade. Here’s how it came to light

How a single Louvre ticket complaint led to the bust of a $16m scam ring

Foreign tour guides and staff who were paid to remain silent orchestrated a counterfeit ticketing ring that robbed the Louvre of millions over more than a decade, Parisian prosecutors say.

Arrests made over alleged €10m Louvre ticket scam

The alleged scheme was revealed by Paris prosecutors on the same day as reports emerged of a leak damaging a work in the museum’s Italian paintings gallery