A ticket touting ring uncovered at the Rio Games had operated for around 8 years and was preparing for other Olympic events such as the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, two Rio de Janeiro police sources said Wednesday.
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Barbosa said he would send his report tomorrow to state prosecutors, who will then decide on presenting formal charges to a judge.
Mr Hickey, THG Sports director Kevin Mallon and eight others are accused of charges including ticket touting, money laundering, false marketing and tax evasion.
Rio public prosecutor Marcus Kac pressed charges against the group on September 6 and it was then up to judge Juliana Leal de Meloto to either accept or reject them.
Hickey was arrested during the Olympic games and spent time at the notorious Bangu high security jail before being released on bail at the end of August.
Brazilian police said on Thursday they want to question International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach as a witness in investigations of a suspected ticket scam by officials during last month’s Games.
Detective Aloysio Falcao, one of the lead investigators in the case, said that Mr Hickey had exercised his constitutional right to remain in silence.
In addition to Hickey and Mallon, another seven people are wanted by police for alleged ties to the ticket price-gouging scheme.
Police said yesterday that they would prefer for Mallon to remain in the jurisdiction, but that this decision rested with the Brazilian judiciary.
He said some of those charged had asked Bach directly for more tickets and he had apparently provided them. They both deny any wrongdoing.
“I will now stay in Rio and my lawyers will proceed to have the charges laid against me set aside as there is no substantive proof of any wrong doing on my part”, Hickey said in a statement after his release from prison.
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Despite six years of preparation for the high-profile event at the Maracanã, the International Olympic Committee chief cancelled his trip to Brazil, choosing instead to attend a memorial for the former West German president Walter Scheel.
