Brazilian police have said that they want to speak to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach about an alleged scheme to resell tickets during last month’s Rio Olympics.
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According to Reuters, both Hickey and Mallon have had their passports confiscated and have been ordered to remain in Brazil.
Mr Hickey’s new restrictions are the same as those a federal judge imposed on Mr Mallon as conditions for his release on August 27th after he won a writ of habeas corpus.
“This includes the publication of obviously private messages not related to the allegations against Mr Hickey by the police”.
A number of others are also being prosecuted but all have left Brazil.
The three officials have already checked out of the hotel they were staying at in Rio, raising the possibility they could already be returning to Ireland, nearly three weeks after the Irish delegation left Brazil.
Brazilian police recommended yesterday that 10 people be charged in a ticket-touting ring uncovered at the Rio Games, including the man who until recently was Europe’s top Olympic official. All involved have denied wrongdoing.
Now Bach is caught up in an affair which centres on the August 17 arrest of Hickey, who is suspected of illegally trading Olympic tickets.
Among the items discussed by THG director David Gilmore with the PyeongChang committee was an “Irish house concept”.
“Mr Bach did not reply but we know that Mr Hickey received 296 extra tickets for the Rio Olympic Games and that is why we want to question the president of the IOC”, the investigator said.
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Mark Adams, Bach’s spokesman, denied in an email sent to all 97 International Olympic Committee members – and obtained by insidethegames – that they were refusing to cooperate with the police in Brazil.
