Olympics: 2020 organizers reveal 6,900 tickets bought with fake IDs english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - Sep 27, 2019 - 21:00 | Sports, News, AllThe 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee said Friday that about 6,900 tickets sold in the first phase of the Olympic domestic lottery in May were bought with fake IDs.
The total value of the tickets was about 180 million yen ($1.6 million).
The organizing committee believes that a specific group orchestrated a plan to create fake IDs in order to secure Olympic tickets, and has already consulted with the Metropolitan Police Department.
Japan residents who want to buy 2020 tickets are first required to register for an official Olympic ID with a name and address.
Roughly 3.2 million tickets were sold in the first phase of ticket sales.