{"id":471142,"date":"2026-02-16T02:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/471142\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:04:27","slug":"9-arrested-over-louvre-ticket-fraud-scheme-involving-chinese-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/471142\/","title":{"rendered":"9 arrested over Louvre ticket fraud scheme involving Chinese tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Paris prosecutors&#8217; office on Thursday said that nine people were being detained as part of an investigation into a suspected decade-long, \u20ac10 million (US$11.8 million) ticket fraud scheme at the Louvre, the world\u2019s most visited museum.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The arrests took place on Tuesday as part of a judicial investigation opened after the Louvre filed a complaint in December 2024, the prosecutors\u2019 office said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The loss for the museum over the past decade is estimated to exceed \u20ac10 million, it said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Those detained include two Louvre employees, several tour guides and one person suspected of being the mastermind, according to the prosecutors\u2019 office.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The museum alerted investigators about the frequent presence of two Chinese tour guides suspected of bringing groups of Chinese tourists into the museum by fraudulently reusing the same tickets multiple times for different visitors.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Other guides were later suspected of similar practices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People wait for the Louvre museum to open. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02c6a659-1791-4271-848e-40496643c288_d5301715.jpg\" title=\"People wait for the Louvre museum to open. Photo: AP\"\/>People wait for the Louvre museum to open. Photo: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Paris prosecutors&#8217; office on Thursday said that nine people were being detained as part of an investigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,13362,88,594,134325,93575,218710,593,218711,79933],"class_list":{"0":"post-471142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-dubai","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-louvre","16":"tag-money-laundering","17":"tag-palace-of-versailles","18":"tag-paris","19":"tag-ticket-fraud","20":"tag-tour-guides"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}