RIO DE JANEIRO: The company that sells World Cup packages warned yesterday that it may cancel tickets for the semi-finals and final which are in the name of firms linked to an illegal ticket-touting probe.
Match Hospitality, the company authorized by FIFA to sell deluxe packages, identified four companies whose names appeared on tickets seized last week in a police raid against an international ticket-touts ring.
Match Hospitality said it had cancelled all the tickets purchased by Atlanta Sportif, the firm run by Franco-Algerian Mohamadou Lamine Fofana, who was arrested last week and named as a central figure in the network.
Lamine’s company had bought 105 packages for seven games worth $121,750, Match Hospitality said in a statement.
Match Hospitality said it was blocking the packages of Reliance Industries Limited, Jet Set Sports and Pamodzi Sports, and warned that it would “cancel their tickets for the semi-final and the final” unless they cooperate in the investigation. AFP
