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Passport numbers, names, dates of birth and more personal information reportedly for 250,000 people who purchased World Cup tickets was allegedly leaked and believed to have been sold on the black market, including former Sweden Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, Norway's national bank governor Svein Gjedrem and Swedish skiing champion Anja Pärson. With tens of thousands of names being sold for around €2 each, the sellers are making enourmous profits. EU Ticket News recently wrote that Sepp Blatter, the president of world football governing body FIFA oversaw the award of the contract to MATCH for up to £342 million in World Cup hospitality tickets to a company part-owned by his nephew’s firm.
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Norwegian paper Dagbladet recently uncovered a list of 250,000 names and passport
numbers of FIFA's Match customers, allegedly sold on the black market to
high-end organised international ticket touts by a rogue Match employee.