Their case is not expected to be seen in court for around one and a half years, reports RTE.
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The judge ordered that the passports of Mr Hickey and Mr Mallon be retained, and both be stopped from leaving Brazil, for the forseeable future.
Mr Hickey, THG Sports director Kevin Mallon and eight others are accused of charges including ticket touting, money laundering, false marketing and tax evasion.
They reportedly must attend a Rio court on the 20th of each month and obey a 10pm house arrest curfew. All involved have denied wrongdoing.
Police investigators in Rio said Bach received personal requests for hundreds of high-value tickets, for the Olympics opening ceremony, the 100 metre final and the football final from Hickey.
It is alleged by Brazilian police, however, that Pro10, who were selected, were just a front operation to hide THG’s involvement.
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.
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.
Police said the local Rio 2016 organising committee had cooperated in the investigation but lamented that nobody from the IOC had come forward to give the worldwide organisation’s side of the story.
“Neither the IOC nor the IOC President have been contacted by any Brazilian authority concerning a request for information”, the IOC said in a Friday statement.
Earlier this week, the International Olympic Committee announced that Bach had no plans to attend the Paralympic Games, being held from September 7-18 in Rio, stating that he was to attend a ceremony in honor of the deceased former German president Walter Scheel.
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He is also due to visit Zagreb today to help the Croatian Olympic Committee celebrate its 25th anniversary.
