At one point, "Bunevacz had warned him that a problem with his Hong Kong financiers was threatening the deal," wrote The Seattle Times.

But this time, Hammett said his tickets, which cost him $2.9 million in total, never arrived.

He said he got the money from brokers and fans that paid him early in reservation for the tickets. For example, ShowTime Tickets CEO Mario Livich paid Hammett a "substantial" amount of money as a deposit for "a deal with him for about $1 million in tickets." Livich is considering to file a suit against Hammett.

Online ticket agency eSeats.com, on the other hand, had already sued Hammett. Company owner Bob Bernstein told The Seattle Times they had paid Hammett "more than $400,000 for about 1,200 tickets."

DAVID BUNEVACZ'S STORY. His story is quite different from Hammett's. 

In an interview with The Seattle Times, Bunevacz said "no one was defrauded in the ticket deal," and that the tickets were not delivered because "Hammett hadn't paid in full."

"The deal went sour... No one is running off with money," he said, adding that any money Hammett had sent went straight to "owners and suppliers."

In an interview, Bunevacz told The Seattle Times he had "a lot more than 17,000 tickets" that were sold to fans. He added that he is also "willing to repay Hammett, but they haven't settled on how much."

PEP had asked the Bunevacz camp to provide its own statement since March 1, but it was only on March 4 that they were able to send a copy of a legal complaint, which indicated: "...the ticket provider and in turn the Plaintiff declined to deliver the package of Winter Olympics tickets to Defendants without being paid in full."

The legal complaint also stated that Hammett portrayed himself "as a victim" and created "an attractive scapegoat" when he allowed himself to be interviewed by The Seattle Times. The complaint said the interview disguised that the problems were "his own doing."

It said Hammett was in fact the person who "breached their contract" by selling tickets he "never actually bought or had in hand," and by "failing to make the final required payment for the tickets."

The complaint continued, "To save face among his disgruntled customers, some of whom have already filed suits against him, Hammett engaged in a media campaign against Plaintiff David Bunevacz to destroy his professional and personal reputation."

Under the subheading Factual Background on page 4, the document confirmed that Bunevacz and Hammett worked together in the Beijing Olympics. It said Bunevacz "worked with his father Joseph Bunevacz to sell released blocks of tickets to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing."

(This contradicts Joseph Bunevacz's previous interview with the The Seattle Times that "he did meet Hammett in Beijing, but denies selling any tickets there.")

The complaint said that on January 21, 2009, Bunevacz and Hammett "entered into an agreement for the purchase of tickets to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver." The agreement was for Hammett to "purchase $1,650,415 of tickets" from the Plaintiff, and pay him "a 20% commission of $330,083." The total payment amounted to $1,980,498.