While he said he was “finishing as president of Olympic Council of Ireland due to pressure of work with my other activities”, Hickey said he wished to retain his seat on the IOC executive board and to hold other senior positions in the worldwide movement.
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Hickey is facing charges in Brazil In connection with ticket scalping, conspiracy, and ambush marketing in a case that broke during the Olympics.
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 in Rio.
Police were awaiting Bach at the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games, in the Maracana Stadium last night, but Bach did not show up.
The police say Bach is being treated as a witness, not a suspect.
“There was and there is no request for a hearing as witness for any International Olympic Committee official”.
Police said he would have been summoned to speak as a witness.
“However, in recent weeks the OCI wrote to THG putting them on notice that if any wrongdoing was found in the investigation of THG and Pro10 in the context of the Rio Olympics that the OCI would notify the Pyeongchang organising committee of same and THG could risk losing the contract”. It was unclear if he would attend other events at the Paralympics, which run until 18 September.
An OCI spokeswoman told the BBC the organisation was “aware of press reports” that Brazilian police were now seeking a warrant for Mr Burke’s arrest, but she said the OCI would not be making any comment on the matter.
After a two-day stay in a local hospital to undergo tests, he was held in a high-security prison complex.
Detective Aloysio Falcao, one of the lead investigators in the case, said that Martin Burke would be charged along with Pat Hickey, Kevin Mallon, and seven other men said to have been involved in the ticketing scheme.
Hickey, 71, an International Olympic Committee member since 1995, was arrested on August 17 before being released on health grounds under condition of remaining in Brazil.
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Police have said that Hickey plotted with businessmen to transfer tickets illegally from a sports company called Pro 10 to hospitality provider THG Sports, which was a non-authorised vendor and allegedly sold them for very high fees. He faces the same charges and must remain in Brazil.
