Woman: Husband is behind Shakira ticket scam

BEAVERTON, Ore. - At first, she did not want to talk about a bogus concert starring a Grammy award winner but now the woman who police originally believed was behind a ticket scheme is talking.

The three-day event, billed as the 'First Annual International Dance Festival,' was supposed to culminate in Bellevue, Wash., Sunday night with a concert starring Latin rocker Shakira.

Workers at a Lazerquick shop in Beaverton worked through the night after a woman came in with a rush job for more than $5,000 in posters, postcards, business cards and concert tickets.

But when the checks for the massive rush job came back from the bank, the printers knew it had all been bogus.  The checks were counterfeit, according to police, and the concert a fake.

KATU News set up a phony ticket purchase to try to catch the bogus promoter in the act.  Olga Antropova showed up about a half hour late for our appointment and was upset when we confronted her.

Antropova jumped into a rental car with a man behind the wheel and they drove off.  The driver, 35-year-old Nguyen Nguyen (who turned out to be Antropova's husband), was later arrested.

Antropova told police her husband (pictured on the right) was the one who masterminded the scam.

"He mainly hurt people that were close to him - family," she said.  "He doesn't just take their money, he takes the trust.  He takes years out of your life."

Police said Nguyen is wanted in King County, Clark County and Tigard for identity theft and some of his victims are his own family members. 

It is unknown how many people fell victim to the ticket scam and police are hoping to hear from those who learned they were duped.

Meanwhile, Antropova is cooperating with police and said she is trying to put her broken life back together.