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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thomas Adamson

Louvre official says fraud ‘inevitable’ at large museums as France probes multimillion euro scheme

France Louvre Ticket Fraud - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

For the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, it is “statistically inevitable” that fraud would come up at some point, the museum’s No. 2 said in the wake of a decade-long, 10 million euro ($11.8 million) suspected ticket-fraud scheme revealed last week.

Kim Pham, the Louvre’s general administrator, told The Associated Press that the museum's unique scale makes it particularly vulnerable. However, pressed to name other institutions with similar problems, he declined to single out peers.

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