Claim OCI had cut links with THG ‘difficult to reconcile’

Standing in the lobby of a hotel in Rio last year, just days before his arrest by Brazilian police, Pat Hickey did an interview with RTÉ news.

On camera, he said that the OCI had severed its links with THG after the Sochi Games in February 2014.

However, “this account is difficult to reconcile with his relationship with Marcus Evans and THG, as is shown by the volume of e-mails between the parties and the information given to the inquiry by contributors,” Judge Carroll Moran concluded.