--- title: Brazil: Emails Found Between Pat Hickey and THG Sports description: Brazil police have found emails between Pat Hickey, a high-ranking Olympics official, and a company alleged to have illegally sold tickets canonical: https://time.com/4464009/brazil-pat-hickey-olympics/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-24T07:50:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:09:55.130Z article:section: Sports og:title: Brazil Police Find Emails Linking Olympic Official to THG Sports og:description: Police said that the OCI may have worked to transfer tickets to THG Sports og:url: https://time.com/4464009/brazil-pat-hickey-olympics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56c81b00628d1866/6988a36f196cf4590c03cf25/gettyimages-494840952.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: XX ANOC General Assembly Washington D.C. 2015 - Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Brazil Police Find Emails Linking Olympic Official to THG Sports twitter:description: Police said that the OCI may have worked to transfer tickets to THG Sports twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56c81b00628d1866/6988a36f196cf4590c03cf25/gettyimages-494840952.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Brazil Police Find Emails Linking Olympic Official to Company Accused of Illegal Ticket Sales > Sponsored content. 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Larry French—ANOC/Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Aug 24, 2016 7:50 AM UTC Police in Brazil said Tuesday that they have uncovered a series of potentially damning emails between a high-ranking Olympics official and a company alleged to have illegally sold tickets to the Olympic Games, the BBC [reports](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37169847). The official, Pat Hickey, formerly served as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) and was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He was [arrested](http://time.com/4461068/ireland-olympic-officials-blocked-leave-brazil/) in Rio last week on suspicion that he was involved in the illegal selling of tickets to the Games; he has not been charged but is being held in Bangu 10 Prison. The emails in question are between Hickey and Marcus Evans, head of THG Sports, the British company alleged to have sold the tickets. The correspondence, in which the two men discuss ticket sales, began in 2010 and continued until as recently as Aug. 3. Police said that the OCI may have worked to transfer the tickets to THG. At least three other OCI officials have had their passports seized amid the ongoing investigation. Several THG officials have been arrested, including Evans, though the company has said that the allegations are “entirely without foundation.” \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37169847)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4464009/brazil-pat-hickey-olympics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4464009/brazil-pat-hickey-olympics/"},"headline":"Brazil Police Find Emails Linking Olympic Official to Company Accused of Illegal Ticket Sales","datePublished":"2016-08-24T07:50:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:09:55.130Z","description":"Police said ticket sales were discussed in the emails","url":"https://time.com/4464009/brazil-pat-hickey-olympics/","keywords":["olympics","brazil","Summer Olympics","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56c81b00628d1866/6988a36f196cf4590c03cf25/gettyimages-494840952.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56c81b00628d1866/6988a36f196cf4590c03cf25/gettyimages-494840952.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"XX ANOC General Assembly Washington D.C. 2015 - Day 3","caption":"XX ANOC General Assembly Washington D.C. 2015 - Day 3","creditText":"Larry French—ANOC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/olympics/","name":"olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4464009/brazil-pat-hickey-olympics/","name":"Brazil Police Find Emails Linking Olympic Official to Company Accused of Illegal Ticket Sales"}}]}] ```