00:00Liverpool Football Club has issued more than 400 lifetime bans as part of a crackdown on
00:06illegal ticket touting. Working with Merseyside Police, the club says more than £1.2 million
00:12of assets linked to organised ticket sales have been seized. The money was split between
00:18Merseyside Police and the Home Office. Officers say the investigation targeted the laundering
00:24of criminal proceeds from illicit ticket trading. Liverpool has also handed out 115 indefinite
00:31suspensions while thousands of suspicious ticket purchases have been cancelled and returned
00:37for general sale. Police and the club say the operation aims to protect genuine supporters
00:43from fraud.
