2 Chinese men charged over helping trio enter Singapore’s Taylor Swift concert without tickets

The two men, 29-year-old Yang Chenguang and 45-year-old Li Xiao Wei, were each charged with abetting three persons to cheat the event organiser, Kallang Alive Sport Management. Both are from China.

Court documents stated that the two men allegedly abetted three individuals, Shangguan Linmo, Hu Zhijun, and Yang Junhao, to gain unauthorised entry to a Taylor Swift concert on Monday at around 6pm.

Yang allegedly talked to security staff members stationed at the entrance of the sports hub to distract them.

Li was said to have held onto a turnstile at the entrance to allow the trio to go through, even though they did not have tickets.

In a separate media release, the police said that they had arrested three men aged between 29 and 45 for their suspected involvement in a case of cheating.

Two other men and two women between the ages of 21 and 25 were also being investigated for criminal trespass.

At around 7.40pm on Monday, the police received a report that several people had entered the concert at Singapore Sports Hub without permission.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the three men were allegedly involved in facilitating the unauthorised entry for the group of four individuals who were not in possession of legitimate concert tickets,” the police said.

TODAY understands that the third man who has yet to be charged is under investigation and that the trio named in the charge sheets for entering the concert are among the four people referred to by the police in their news release as not having legitimate tickets.

Apart from the two men charged on Wednesday, police investigations against the other persons are ongoing.

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