Patrick Hickey, an executive member of the International Olympic Committee, speaks at a conference in 2015. (Getty) Rio de Janeiro authorities issued an arrest warrant for IOC member Patrick Hickey on Wednesday morning, the Associated Press reported. The head of the European*Olympic committee is suspected of illegally scalping tickets for the Summer Games currently being held in report.
The AP reports that Hickey is suspected of participating in the action “with at least six others” and that agents have seized more than 1,000 tickets that had been sold for high fees after being allocated by the Olympic Council of Ireland. Another Irish executive was arrested in the same probe last week.
Hickey, 71, *has been a member of the IOC Executive Board since 2012 and*President of the Olympic Council of Ireland since 1989. Hickey*is a former*Irish judo athlete.
This is a developing story.