The concert world has a few less frustrated fans, now that a Russian billionaire’s company has returned the money for two canceled concerts at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, allowing ticket holders to collect refunds. Fans of Tool and Judas Priest had spent more than $2 million for tickets to those bands’ shows this year at the Coliseum. But after all events at the arena were canceled because of the pandemic, complaints began bubbling through social media that refunds for those shows were not reaching fans. According to the policies posted by Ticketmaster, the Coliseum’s ticket vendor, refunds for events that are canceled outright should be processed in about 30 days. Onexim Sports and Entertainment, a company controlled by Mikhail Prokhorov, a billionaire Russian investor, leased the Coliseum from Nassau County until August, when the county negotiated a transfer of the lease to a real estate developer that had helped finance renovations to the arena.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2020 17:26 UTC