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Old 08-07-2014, 01:46
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No wonder we can't buy a ticket when people like this screw us over.

A British director of a World Cup hospitality firm has been arrested as part of an investigation into illegal ticket sales.

Ray Whelan, who works for Fifa's exclusive official hospitality partner Match, was detained in Rio de Janeiro, police in the city confirmed.


http://news.sky.com/story/1296948/br...-touting-probe
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Old 08-07-2014, 05:31
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No wonder we can't buy a ticket when people like this screw us over.

A British director of a World Cup hospitality firm has been arrested as part of an investigation into illegal ticket sales.

Ray Whelan, who works for Fifa's exclusive official hospitality partner Match, was detained in Rio de Janeiro, police in the city confirmed.


http://news.sky.com/story/1296948/br...-touting-probe
Not the first and won't be the last. Still not right btw, this game is bent from top to bottom.
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Old 08-07-2014, 07:30
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Saw a piece on this on the news this morning and it appears that the authorities have been tracking mainly hospitality tickets and are able to track them back to source.
Hopefully they will name names of those that passed the tickets onto him
I think it's quite pertinent that he has been staying at the same hotel as the top FIFA officials including Sepp
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Old 08-07-2014, 08:10
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he deserves a little brazilian jail time
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Old 08-07-2014, 08:25
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Just saw the guy's picture without knowing what the story was and I thought it was Roy !

ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-28205082
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Old 08-07-2014, 08:46
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Is anyone surprised? Tickets given to players, officials and for hospitality in the game have been finding there way onto the market for years.
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Old 11-07-2014, 06:06
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He's done a runner

However, police in Rio said they went to Mr Whelan's room in the Copacabana Palace but he was no longer there and they were told he had left an hour earlier.

Mr Barucke said outside the hotel: "We have security camera images of him exiting the hotel through a service door."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-28258207
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Old 14-07-2014, 20:41
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He's turned himself in to the authorities in Brazil

Guess he's had time to organise his affairs now......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-28302826
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