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Fake Games ticket fraudster is jailed

An Olympics fraudster who sold fake tickets to athletes' parents has been jailed for four years.

Christakis Ioannou, 44, was carrying €17,500 (£14,100) in his shoes when Scotland Yard detectives arrested him at Gatwick Airport.

The sum was just a fraction of what he made in a near €510,500 (£411,889) fraud that affected parents of athletes from Greece and France, police said.

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