Officers have found emails from Bach to another senior International Olympic Committee official Patrick Hickey, who was arrested last month and is facing charges.
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Police said they are seeking charges against seven other people: four other THG officials and three from Dublin-based PRO10 Sports Management, Ireland’s official Olympic Games ticket reseller.
However, Bach canceled plans to attend Wednesday’s opening of the Paralympics in Rio.
The IOC did not respond to an immediate request for comment.
“Choosing between the trip to Rio and the funeral of a close friend whom I had known for more than forty years, the human reasons prevailed”, Bach was quoted as saying.
It’s understood that the passport of Hickey and Mallon have been retained and they’ve been impeded from leaving Brazil for the time being.
Another investigator, Ricardo Barbosa de Souza, said Hickey emailed Bach in July 2015 asking to increase his allocation of tickets to last month’s Games here.
Ireland’s top Olympic official Pat Hickey has been charged by a judge in Brazil, in relation to illegal ticket sales involving senior irish Olympic officials.
On Thursday, the Brazilian police announced that they wanted to interview Bach for his alleged links to a ring that sought to illegally sell tickets at a marked-up cost during the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Hickey added that he “believe in the Brazilian judicial system” and is confident of being “discharged of all accusations”.
The former OCI president was arrested on August 17 and later charges were issued after an investigation in to an Olympic ticketing scandal. After a two-day stay in a local hospital to undergo tests, he was held in a high-security prison complex.
He was set free last week when a judge ruled he was not a risk to the public or the investigation. If convicted, they could face up to 10 years in a Brazilian jail.
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The eight other suspects are businessmen with Pro10 and THG Sports who are not in Brazil, including Marcus Evans, who owns THG Sports’ parent company, as well as English football club Ipswich Town. Still, investigators said they have not found any evidence of Bach’s knowledge of the alleged scheme.
