British World Cup Ticket Official May Be Jailed in Brazil
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A senior executive of soccer governing body FIFA’s ticketing and hospitality partner could be jailed if he returns to Brazil to await trial for charges including money laundering, racketeering and illegally selling World Cup tickets.
Ray Whelan, a director at Match Services AG, who denies the charges, was arrested twice in raids around the July 14 World Cup final before being held in Rio de Janeiro’s Bangu Prison. A panel of judges on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, the country’s highest appeal body, yesterday overturned a ruling allowing Whelan and others to be released from prison in August.