John Delaney passport sought by Rio police

Brazilian police have confiscated the passports of three more Irish Olympic officials and are pursuing three others, including FAI chief executive John Delaney and Pat Hickey’s successor Willie O’Brien.

Rio authorities made the dramatic decision to take the travel documentation yesterday in a bid to prevent any officials from leaving the country due to the escalating multi-million euro Olympic ticket touting scandal.

In a series of dawn hotel and OCI office raids, Rio’s civil police fraud unit confronted OCI’s chief executive Stephen Martin and executive board members Kevin Kilty and Dermot Henihan.