Hickey is to be released pending further investigation into charges that he took part in a ring to illegally sell tickets. Hickey is also OCI president, head of the European Olympic Committees and vice-president of the Association of National Olympic Committees.
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Hickey shared a prison cell in Bangu 10 with Kevin Mallon, the Dublin man who was charged with ticket touting during the recent Olympic games.
Rio de Janeiro Judge Fernando de Almeida agreed in a ruling to “revoke the preventive imprisonment ordered against the patient Patrick Joseph Hickey”, but ordered him not to leave Brazil.
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Mr Hickey and Mr Mallon were arrested by the Brazilian authorities investigating the alleged illegal sale of tickets allocated by the OCI to THG.
The writ had added that Hickey’s age and history of health problems should weigh in his favour.
THG Sports is an worldwide sports hospitality company.
All eyes will be placed in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic games.
He is to be released in the next few hours on bail and he must remain under house arrest in Rio de Janerio.
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He left custody late on Saturday but he is not allowed to leave Brazil, his lawyer told Reuters. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.theeagleonline.com.ng as the source.
