It comes as Gardaí in Laois identified a young woman as the focus of their inquiries.
The Head of Electric Picnic is 'shocked' and 'disgusted' over alleged ticket fraud around the festival.
It comes following Gardaí in Laois identifying a young woman as the focus of their inquiries into multiple complaints from people who paid for EP tickets and never received them.
Investigating officers expect an arrest to be made in the coming weeks.
The extent of the fraud is believed to be in the region of around €80,000.
Melvin Benn says tickets for the Laois festival can be found in only one place:
People have been sharing videos of their stories online, after they were allegedly conned out of hundreds of euro.
One of them, Zara McGettigan paid a number of weeks ago, but only reported it to Gardaí last weekend:
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