Ticket Scam at Louvre

"The museum alerted investigators to the frequent presence of two Chinese tourist guides, suspected of bringing groups of Chinese tourists to the museum by fraudulently reusing the same tickets for different visitors. Other guides were subsequently suspected of similar practices."

Interesting article, Phyllis. I am surprised this continued to happen.

In August 2019 the Paris Museum Pass rules changed allowing only one visit per venue per Pass whereas before before you could enter the same museum multiple times. At that time it was announced that it was because big Asian groups were passing Museum Passes off to subsequent groups so they were cheating the system then.

I can't believe after 7 years this continues to happen and the Louvre officials were not aware of it?

Right, Pam, the issue had been around for years! Here's a thread on the subject from 2019.
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/france/if-you-plan-to-visit-the-louvre

This most recent scam may have been for single-use tickets versus passes. I know they uncovered large batches of counterfeit tickets once before, in 2018 I believe?

They reported this new infraction to the police about a year and a half ago, took this amount of time to investigate, AND two Louvre employees were arrested, too. It seems this one was more complicated.
This one was set up a differently from the first scam where the Chinese groups passed the same tickets back and forth.