A crime gang sold commuters millions of pounds worth of counterfeit train tickets which could open barriers at London stations, a court heard, as they were jailed for 24 years. The sophisticated scheme involved printing weekly and monthly tickets for travel across the capital and cost rail companies around £8 million while it operated between 2016 and 2019. Ringleaders used blank tickets, card readers, computer programs and printers to produce fake passes which had their magnetic strips manipulated to fool the ticket barriers. The passes were made to look as if they had been issued at Stratford station, but police raided a house in Brentford and found nearly 60,000 blank tickets, which if turned into counterfeits could fetch up to £20million....
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