Brazil 2014: Match Hospitality director arrested over illegal ticket sales, then released

News Tank Football - Paris - News #22227 - Published on 09/07/14 at 15:14
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Ray Whelan, the director of Match Hospitality, a Swiss company that holds and manages the hospitality programme rights for FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), was arrested in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) as part of the police's Jules Rimet operation (named for the French man who founded the World Cup in 1930) to investigate an...

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