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Fifa must answer questions after allegations of \u201cartificially inflating prices\u201d and \u201cmisleading fans\u201d over the sale of tickets for the 2026 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n It comes as the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey officially launched an investigation into Fifa\u2019s practices.<\/p>\n New Jersey attorney general Jennifer Davenport called the process a \u201cgauntlet of confusion, fake scarcity and impossibly high prices\u201d.<\/p>\n She added there would be a \u201cthorough investigation of Fifa\u2019s conduct\u201d with world football\u2019s governing body subpoenaed to provide information.<\/p>\n A subpoena compels a party to release specified internal documents or information.<\/p>\n Davenport made a joint announcement alongside New York attorney general Letitia James and the New York City department of consumer and worker protection (DCWP).<\/p>\n DCWP commissioner Samuel AA Levine said the body would be taking \u201callegations of blatantly deceptive conduct very seriously\u201d and would look into allegations of \u201cartificially inflating prices\u201d.<\/p>\n In particular, Fifa has been asked to explain why tickets have \u201cexceeded the prices for any previous World Cup tournament\u201d.<\/p>\n Fans have reported they were \u201cmisled\u201d about the location of seats, including through the creation of more expensive \u2018front\u2019 category tickets released after the initial sales.<\/p>\n It is also alleged variable pricing through various phases had allowed Fifa to raise prices for about 90 of the 104 fixtures by an average of 34%.<\/p>\n The investigation will consider how the ticket release schedule and public statements may have impacted prices.<\/p>\n The post Fifa ordered to explain World Cup ticket pricing.<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Fifa must answer questions after allegations of \u201cartificially inflating prices\u201d and \u201cmisleading fans\u201d over the sale of tickets for the 2026 World Cup. It comes as the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey officially launched an investigation into Fifa\u2019s practices. New Jersey attorney general Jennifer Davenport called the process a \u201cgauntlet of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}