But police say they have found an email from August 3, two days before the Olympics, in which Mr Hickey allegedly discussed tickets for the opening ceremony with Mr Evans, the owner of THG Sports, who police are also seeking to arrest.
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Police allege Hickey was part of a scam involving Ireland’s official Games ticket reseller, Dublin-based PRO10 Sports Management, and an worldwide sports hospitality company, THG Sports.
Dermot Henihan, general secretary of the council, Kevin Kilty, its treasurer, and Stephen Martin, the chief executive, all agreed to be questioned when their passports were seized on Sunday.
Police told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro that they were also investigating bank documents amid suspicion of money laundering tied to the illegal ticketing ring.
Kevin Mallon’s case will be handled by Rio’s special court for supporters and large events, which was set up to handle legal matters around the Olympics.
A police spokesman said: “The OCI was the facilitator of these tickets finding their way to THG”.
“This deposition was very important”, he said, adding that further arrests were possible.
The two men and their colleague Dermot Henihan were dragged into the ongoing investigation into alleged Olympic ticket touting.
Evidence linked the three to the illegal ticket scam, police said.
Other people Rio’s authorities intend to question are acting OCI president Willie O’Brien, OCI executive and chief executive of the FAI John Delaney as well as personal assistant to the OCI president Linda O’Reilly.
The OCI and Mr Hickey have repeatedly denied wrongdoing in this controversy.
THG has said the seized tickets were being held legally on behalf of PRO10.
Meanwhile, their former boss OCI President Pat Hickey remains behind bars. The police found Hickey next door. The video shot during his arrest shows that he was awakening at that very same time, wearing a robe.
Local solicitor Simone Kamenetz made the call as she lodged a second bail request for the 71-year-old OCI president, who is at the centre of multi-million euro ticket-touting scandal claims.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Liveline programme yesterday, Rio police commissioner Aloysio Falcao said he is not opposed to the decision to potentially transfer Mr Hickey to house arrest.
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Hickey’s lawyer confirmed “The judiciary recess ended today, and the prosecutor has not yet presented his case before the judge, so it will not be possible for the judge to whom the case will be assigned to already be aware of the matter”.
