"Lavallée, on the first day, stuck out like a sore thumb," said a source familiar with the NTS probe into mass purchases of online concert tickets. Lavallée refused to answer questions about his online ticket purchases or his relationship with StubHub. U.K. exposes scalper secrecyWhat ultimately put Lavallée on investigators' radar is a transparency law in the U.K. that requires sites like StubHub to post information about resellers operating as businesses. Lavallée used a company called I Want Ticket Inc, registered on the British Isle of Man, to post on StubHub in the U.K. "StubHub holds all sellers to a very high standard and requires they follow all relevant laws," the company said in an emailed statement.

Source: CBC News November 10, 2017 02:00 UTC