Viagogo to pay ‘significant’ part of legal bill for re-sale sites probe

secondary platforms in general. But as part of the action, they won a court order against Viagogo to force them to comply with UK law. The rogue site has repeatedly breached the law, for example by listings tickets that turned out to be invalid. Business under-secretary Kelly Tolhurt told Labour MP and anti-touts campaigner Sharon Hodgson: “The CMA’s secondary tickets investigation cost £1.9million to the end of 2018. A significant proportion of those costs relate to the CMA’s litigation against Viagogo.

“Under the court order secured against Viagogo AG, it will meet the CMA’s reasonable costs of those proceedings.”

FanFair Alliance spokesman Adam Webb said the public shouldn’t have to pay the legal bill. He added: “Viagogo caused endless delay and obstruction and it would be the final insult if a bulk of the investigation’s costs were picked up by the taxpayer.”