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The Rio Olympics. Over two weeks of sport and sunshine on the Atlantic | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
coast. Athletes coming from practically every nation on Earth to | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
compete. When we arrived during the Paralympics, the atmosphere in | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
Brazil was still electric. When you stand here and take all of it takes | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
your breath away, the away, the sounds, the beautiful weather, a | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
tangible sense of excitement in the air. But this year, amid the | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
competition and the colour, there was controversy. First to that | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
arrest in Brazil of Pat Hickey. Right in the middle of the Games, | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Alan's Olympic chief Pat Hickey was arrested and taken to one of | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Brazil's most notorious prisons. Now he is charged with being part of an | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
alleged ticket touting ring and has had his passport seized. Pat Hickey | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
has said he is innocent but he will remain in Rio to fight the charges. | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
Pat Hickey has been involved with the Olympic sports since 1981. He | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
became president of the Olympic Council of Ireland in 1989. A | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
position he held until his arrest when he suspended himself from the | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
roll. After becoming chief of the Olympic Council of Ireland, Pat | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
Hickey rose to prominence on the world stage, rubbing shoulders with | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
the great and the good. And in the Olympic movement, he had become | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
president of the European Olympic Committees. During his journey to | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
the top, Pat Hickey has at times been a controversial figure and | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
sometimes got on the wrong side of athletes. On one occasion, he was | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
heavily criticised for his views on certain Olympians. Paul is an | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
international cyclist who competed for Ireland at the summer Olympic | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
Games in 1984. Now a writer, he recalls Pat Hickey criticising | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
athletes after the Sydney Olympics in 2000. He used the fact that the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
team had not performed well really weighed into the performance and the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
athletes. I wrote a piece about at the time. And the reaction of the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
athletes to this, how much they resented Pat Hickey and what he said | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
about them and what he said about how they had performed. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Gaming is one of Alan's most celebrated athletes. In an interview | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
at the time, he was asked what his views were about the criticisms. Pat | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
Hickey has laid it on the line, he has said that second raters need not | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
apply for Athens in 2004. I was disgusted with him in the paper when | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
I read those quotes from him and his viewpoints on second raters. Do you | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
know what, to be upfront, Pat Hickey was a second rater himself going | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
into the Olympic Games a number of years ago as a participant in judo. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
I came into my sport to make one spot of judo and rose up the ranks | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
in competition and became president of the Irish judo Association and | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
that led me on to a delegate of the Olympic Committee. Pat Hickey has | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
said he spent his time in the Olympic movement serving | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
sportspeople. I am not a paid official, I am a volunteer, I am not | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
in the business of sport, as such, I have done long years of voluntary | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
serving. Top Olympic volunteers are well looked after, they are | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
constantly on business right around the world and receive daily | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
payments. Every time they are on duty. As a member of the Executive | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
of the International Olympic Committee, Pat Hickey receives $900 | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
each day. So for 17 days of an Olympics, that would amount to | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
$15,300. A bit of celebrating, we were on the podium and danced. Some | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
elite athletes can only dream of money. Like the O'Donovan brothers | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
who competed in Rio. We have won two silver medals in going, those two | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
rowers were funded to around 12,000 each year. That is as much as Pat | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
Hickey got per day at the games. Do not tell me that the sportspeople | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
are not aware of that, that creates resentment now. That is across all | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
of the sport that resentment. Unhappiness about Irish Olympic | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
funding applies to not just a rowing, Alan's most decorated recent | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Olympian is the Belfast boxer Paddy Barnes. I spoke to his father, | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Patrick, at the boxing club in Belfast. The greatest ability Paddy | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
has got is the ability to keep going and to want to win. He wanted to | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
make the best of what he has and he is prepared to do what is necessary, | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
watch is not easy. Last year he qualified for the Olympics and he | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
travelled 30,000 miles in 14 weeks. Seven different countries. Paddy won | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
bronze in Beijing in 2008, but again in London in four years later he did | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
likewise. But despite the success in the ring and some funding, finance | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
and security has not been easy to come by. Funding what on how | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
successful you are, there is a trait sets down that you must achieve to | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
qualify for certain amounts of money. Paddy Barnes received 40,000 | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
euros funding each year across the Olympic Games that he took part in. | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
Beijing, London and Rio. It has to cover his whole life, his personal | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
training and travel. He has to live on that, has car has to run on that. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Then you have to consider a mortgage. He could not get 13 or | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
four years ago. He is a double Olympic medals and cannot get a | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
mortgage? Yes. Despite the financial | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
pressures, it is the glory that matters most to the Barnes family. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
When Paddy was asked to carry the Irish flag at the Rio open -- | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
opening ceremony, it was the happiest moment. A very proud day | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
for myself. Not everyone gets to go to an opening ceremony like this. It | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
is a great honour. As far as I am concerned, carrying the flag is as | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
good as winning a medal, that is my personal opinion. | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
When the Games began on the 5th of August, Patrick Barnes was not there | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
to see his son. The Olympic Council of Ireland never offered him or his | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
family tickets for the event. No, I was not at the opening ceremony. If | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
you listen to what Patrick said when it was announced, how much of an | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
honour it was for him, I never got to see that. I just saw a few | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
pictures but since then. I have never been to any opening ceremony | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
or closing ceremony. As relatives of a competitor, the Barnes family | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
would have been eligible for what are known as national Olympic | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
betting tickets. These are issued to every national Olympic committee, | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
including the Olympic Council of Ireland, to distribute. For example, | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
to the families and friends of athletes and two Olympic officials, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
they are not for resale. While everyone had been getting ready for | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
the Olympic Opening Ceremony, and Paddy Barnes was preparing to hoist | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
the flag of Ireland, drama was unfolding elsewhere in Rio. An Irish | :08:30. | :08:41. | |
businessman called Kevin Mallon was arrested here at this hotel on the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
beach-front. Police have said he had with him a number of tickets for the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
opening ceremony, including tickets which were part of Alan's Olympic | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
allocation. He was employed by a company called the Hospitality -- | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
Hospitality Group or THG. Police believe that the company and Kevin | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Mallon were involved in ticket touting, an allegation that both | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
deny. This is the Next hotel where Kevin Mallon hosted a cocktail | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
party, police believe the purpose of that party was to entertain people. | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
His company were not allowed to sell tickets at the Rio Olympics so | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
police got wind of this came and arrested him. PhD is owned by this | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
man, Marcus Evans. He is a multimillionaire who has made a lot | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
of money from selling tickets and hospitality packages to corporate | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
clients around the world. He is also known to many as the owner of | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
Ipswich town football club. -- THG. One of PhD's senior staff had been | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
arrested for alleged ticket touting after the World Cup in Brazil two | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
years ago. Police in Rio have said they have been keeping an eye on THG | :10:02. | :10:02. | |
because of that. -- THG. Companies like THG which wanted to | :10:03. | :10:38. | |
sell tickets or tickets for hospitality at the Olympics had to | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
be accepted by the Rio ticket authorities. We have seen some of | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
the information that the police has said support their case against THG | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
and Kevin Mallon. When Kevin Mallon was arrested he was meeting clients | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
who are wanting tickets and looking forward to the opening ceremony. One | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
Brazilian business Ben Davies document to the police after Kevin | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Mallon was arrested and they show that he had spent a lot of money. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
The documents, in two parts. The first is a bill for hospitality on | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
the day of the opening ceremony and the cost of that is about seven that | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
they have thousand dollars per person. The second part of the | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
contract Al Pointing THG as an agent to buy tickets and the cost of that | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
is about $1000 per head. Police allege that these documents | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
concealed the true charge for the tickets, hiding it in the cost of | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
the hospitality. In Brazil, including the cost of the tickets by | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
concealing it for overpriced hospitality is classed as ticket | :11:45. | :11:45. | |
touting. That is against the law. After Kevin Mallon's arrest, police | :11:46. | :12:11. | |
crack open the safe in his hotel apartment and found these. Hundreds | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
of tickets for the Games. Including some Irish tickets which had been | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
for sale for a variety of Olympic events. 40 of these, the police | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
claimed, were Irish tickets, those men for families of athletes and | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Olympic officials and not meant for sale. This is Kevin Mallon arriving | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
at the Central police station. The police investigation was under way. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
The question was, why did he have so many tickets when the company THG, | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
for which he walked and for whom he was a director, were not allowed to | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
sell Olympic tickets? -- worked. PhD and Kevin Mallon denied that they | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
were involved in selling tickets at the Olympics or in any form of | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
ticket touting. They have said the tickets he held were sold by those | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
who were authorised and he was acting as a collection point on | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
their behalf. They have said a full assessment cannot be achieved | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
without consideration of all compliance documentation relating to | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
the provision of hospitality packages in Rio. Pat Hickey and the | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
Olympic Council of Ireland had had a relationship with THG, owned by | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Marcus Evans, since the London Olympics. They had worked together | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
at the London games in 2012 when Pat Hickey and the Olympic Council had | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
nominated THG to be expected agent or in the jargon, it authorised | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
ticket reseller, ATR. We decided we'd better go but one of the big | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
international companies and we searched around the globe and we | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
discovered that Marcus Evans' group is probably the best-known and most | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
professional and I have to tell you that in our dealings with them to | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
date, we have found that. We have great confidence in the group. At | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
the London Games, Pat Hickey and the Olympic Council of Ireland also | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
asked THG to look after the Centre for Irish Olympic hospitality, what | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
is known as the Irish house. We do not have the expertise ourselves to | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
do that, so that is why we would be looking again at the professionalism | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
of the Marcus Evans' group. Pat Hickey's son Stefan then went to | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
work for THG to run the Irish house. Pat Hickey later explained to the | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
press that Stefan had been headhunted for the position. His | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
appointment had been approved by the Executive Committee of the Olympic | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Council of Ireland. This is the Irish house, this is the | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Irish national house. Pat Hickey wanted THG to be the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
ticket agent for Ireland for the Rio games. PhD were not wanted at the | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Olympics after one of their senior staff had been arrested for alleged | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
ticket touting during the World Cup. -- THG. The Olympic authorities | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
turned down the application, so Pat Hickey export an alternative, so | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
agent solution. Brazilian police have released this | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
e-mail and they have said it shows how Pat Hickey wanted to involve THG | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
at Rio in 2016. In the e-mail, Pat Hickey right to Olympic officials | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
and asked what the instead of being a full ticket agent, it could be a | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
subagent instead. In a statement the International Olympic Committee said | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
it was perfectly in compliance with the rules for tap -- Pat Hickey | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
deceit and arrangement but they conformed it never concluded. | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
PhD was a dead end for Rio 2016 for the Olympic Council of Ireland, so | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Pat Hickey and the council did something else, they turned to a | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
company out of them in Dublin called Ward End sports management. It was | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
appointed as an official reseller days after Pat Hickey had enquired | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
if THG could BSA. -- Pro 10 Management. It is not clear why they | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
were chosen, it had just been set up and had no track record of selling | :16:09. | :16:09. | |
tickets. When Kevin Mallon was taken to | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
prison, the police van hundreds of tickets in his room. Why were many | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Irish which were supposed to be the responsibility of the appointed | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
agent? And why did he also have mock tickets? Though that were supposed | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
to be further my one week later after his arrest, Pat Hickey and all | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
the Olympic Council of Ireland were investigating. We then moved very | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
fast and this has been proved by our executive committee, but this time | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
of the Lone Ranger, I have to go to the executive committee for | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
permission to do things. What we've done is written to the Brazilian | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
authorities in Rio 2016 and we've asked them to send us all the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
necessary documentation and any evidence whatsoever. Irish sports | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Minister Shane Ross said he also had questions about what had happened. | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
He flew to Rio to meet Pat Hickey face-to-face hoping to persuade him | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
to put an independent person of his inquiry. But Pat Hickey on behalf of | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
the Olympic Council of Ireland said no. I'm stunned by the reaction. | :17:24. | :17:36. | |
ICOM believe they refuse to take an independent on their inquiry. When | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Shane Ross returned to Ireland, a leaked e-mail revealed Pat take it | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
had been given legal advice before meeting the minister. It said Shane | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
Ross needs to be put back in his box. The Brazilian police were | :17:48. | :17:57. | |
continuing to ask questions about how so many Irish tickets were in | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Kevin Mallon's possession. A less than a week after saying he would | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
investigate, too, Pat Hickey was himself arrested. This is one of the | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
top hotels in Rio. It really is the last word in luxury by any | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
standards. Nothing but the better officials like Pat Hickey. He and | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
others have been staying here for a of weeks be just a stone's throw | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
from one of the best beaches in Rio. Many Olympic officials were staying | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
in similar 5-star hotels along the Rio beach-front. And then police, | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
led by an investigator came looking for particular the 17th of August at | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
6am, they went to the wrong Windsor hotel. Spotlight has spoken to an | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
eyewitness who saw the whole thing happen. When police arrived at the | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
correct Windsor Hotel, they knocked on Pat Hickey's door on the eighth | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
floor. His wife and the third and told police that her husband was not | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
there. The police went to the breakfast room to look for him, no | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
luck. Practically's son Stefan had been in the room next door and have | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
left for Ireland with his family. Police found Pat Hickey there and | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
arrested him. After a precautionary visit to a | :19:32. | :19:53. | |
hospital, Pat Hickey was driven to prison on the outskirts of Rio. This | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
prison has a reputation for being tough as this quite prison security | :19:59. | :19:59. | |
team showed us when we visited. In the prison, Pat Hickey shared a | :20:00. | :20:27. | |
cell with Kevin Mallon. The THG director who had been arrested a | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
fortnight earlier. They were both now suspected of being part of the | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
same alleged ticket touting conspiracy. These are the cells in | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
which Kevin Mallon and Pat Hickey would have been held up while they | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
were here. I've just been able to see an aside some of them. They're | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
incredibly small, cramped and have very little natural daylight. Kevin | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
Mallon run Pat Hickey were released within a couple of days of each | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
other at the end of August. Both have had their passports taken from | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
them and face strict conditions while they await trial. We've just | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
spent the best part of two hours inside that prison talking to prison | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
guards and other authorities and it's very, very clear to me, having | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
done that, the seriousness with which the Brazilian authorities are | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
taking this alleged conspiracy. If there are questions about the police | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
Mars's investigation after Kevin Mallon's arrest, there were even | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
more after Hickey was arrested, too. In a step which will be highly | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
unusual in the UK and Ireland, the police began to talk publicly about | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
why they believed there was a case to answer. They also began to | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
release e-mails and documents they had apparently obtained from | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
practically's Fonab computers. Firstly the authorities said they | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
believed that the Olympic Council of Ireland's ticket agent was what they | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
call it a ghost company. They believed this because it was set up | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
so quickly after Pat Hickey's attempts to have THG appointed as a | :22:16. | :22:16. | |
sub agent was turned down. Pro ten have denied they were ghost | :22:17. | :22:52. | |
company. Like THG, they sever Kevin Mallon was holding tickets on their | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
behalf for collection by pro ten customers. They said it was normal | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
practice for authorised ticket resellers to have tickets in Rio for | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
collection. After practically's arrest, police in Brazil held a | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
number of press conference, but they displayed more of the e-mails and | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
documents they say they'd gathered, including more from Pat Hickey's | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
phone and computers. The police released selected documents, so it's | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
very difficult to make a full assessment of the police's | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
allegations. One e-mail that they released was from this man, Greg | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
Hardy. He used to be head of the American Olympic Committee. Now he | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
works for a big hospitality company. In July, Greg Hardy e-mailed Pat | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
Hickey and told his company had, in his words, figured out a partnership | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
with Marcus Evans and his team real. He said he'd been working in | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
particular with Kevin Mallon. Patrick replied and said, thanks for | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
the info, Greg, see you in Rio. But in an interview after Kevin Mallon's | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
arrest, Pat Hickey said he did know anything about Kevin Mallon. Have | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
you ever met Kevin Mallon? No. I don't know anything about him and in | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
fact, when I heard that he posts things like this, I thought he was | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
based in the UK. I subsequently read in the media that is based in the | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
Dublin office, but I've never met him and to my knowledge, none of the | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
staff have either. In the same interview, Pat Hickey said the | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
seller would investigate pro ten. We've started to investigate our own | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
ticket agent, pro-tenant management and we have a whole series of | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
questions to be answered there. We've sent them a list of questions | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
you want detailed answers to each one. Then we can assemble all the | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
facts. The day before Pat Hickey had said he will be investigating pro | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
tem, he and Marcus Evans, the boss of THG had been in e-mail contact | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
and we are consulting on what their protest to the Rio Olympic authority | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
rugby. In e-mail, Marcus Evans said see below suggest a response. I'm | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
getting feedback from lawyers in UK and Ireland, but do you have any | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
initial thoughts? It's not clear up I get to go that invitation, but | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
this is one of many e-mails between Pat Akin Marcus Evans after Kevin | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
Mallon's arrest consulted on responses to the press and the | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Olympic authorities. When Pat Hickey was interviewed, he said there was | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
no longer any relationship between the Olympic on Schiller and THG. -- | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
Olympic Council of Ireland. Do you have any understanding and knowledge | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
of how THG became involved in this? None whatsoever. And the Olympic | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
committee of Ireland has no association with THG? No, it is | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
pro-tenant management. When did the company sever their links with THG. | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
The games in Russia were two and a half years earlier. Practically's | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
marks raised questions because of an e-mail he sent to Marcus Evans, the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
boss of THG. He sent it on the 3rd of August, just two days before the | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
opening ceremony. In the e-mail, Pat Hickey rise to Marcus Evans and | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
says, I can confirm that you know I do not require the open and closing | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
ceremony together as part of our allegation. You can use them all. | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
Now remember, the tickets worth of the OCI to distribute, for example, | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
is family and friends of athletes, and not to be be sold. The kind of | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
ticket I could take on Paddy Barnes's dad to the opening | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
ceremony. It is not clear how many tickets practically was referring to | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
what he meant by use them all. But remember, in an interview, Pat | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Hickey had said the OCI had no relationship with THG fought two | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
years. Police and the prosecutor in Brazil have charged ten people, | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
including Pat Hickey, Kevin Mallon and Marcus Evans. The directors pro | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
ten and other directors of THG. While Spotlight was in Rio, the | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
police passed their files to the judge to decide if the case should | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
to trial. She decided it should. All ten people are charged denied all | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
charges against them. How large or think you will be before this case | :27:55. | :27:55. | |
is complete? I don't need my son to be running | :27:56. | :28:31. | |
down and begging for tickets for his family stand in Rio, London Beijing. | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
I do that is right. It is not right for the family and not for the boxer | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
or athlete. The Olympic Council of Ireland has said it will await the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
conclusion of eight judge led enquire in the Republic before | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
commenting. Paddy Barnes has turned professional and hopes to have a | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
fight in Belfast before Christmas. Pat Hickey is still in a real, | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
living in this apartment block. He says he is completely innocent and | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
will vigorously defend his good name and character. He says he has | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
received support from thousands of people across Ireland. And he could | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
be here for summertime. The judge has taken his passport, he is under | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
curfew and asked to attend court on the 20th of each month. One thing is | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
certain, Pat Hickey's current circumstances are a long way from | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
the prestigious life he was leading before the Rio Olympics. | :29:31. | :29:32. |