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17th August 2016
11:41am BST

"The OCI is aware of the media stories regarding Pat Hickey and we are seeking total clarity on the situation before we comment further. Any updates will be made via the OCI website."There has been no official statement yet from the Brazilian authorities so it is entirely possible that Hickey's arrest is a procedural stage as police continue their investigations into how Kevin Mallon, a finance director of sports hospitality company THG, was detained on August 5th with several hundred tickets for Olympic events, many of which came from the OCI's allocation for the Games. Mallon's lawyer, Franklin Gomes, this week told the Irish Times that his client has "done nothing wrong". “Kevin has been accused of crimes he did not commit,” Gomes said. “He was not selling tickets above face value. There is no proof, as the police claim, that he was distributing tickets for the purpose of ticket touting. There is no proof of credit card or cash transaction at the hotel at the time of his arrest.”
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