RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A senior international Olympic official was taken to a hospital Wednesday after police came to his hotel to arrest him as part of a probe into ticket scalping.
International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams told The Associated Press that Ireland's Patrick Hickey, a member of the IOC's executive board, was in the hospital.
Hickey is accused of plotting with at least six others to illegally sell tickets for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Rio police said.
"Continuing our investigation, civil police discovered the involvement of Patrick in the international scheme of ticket scalping," the Rio police fraud unit said.