- published: 03 Jul 2014
- views: 23
For More Latest News Subscribe us: http://www.youtube.com/user/worldnetworktvbbccnn http://worldnetworktv.blogspot.in/ Police in Brazil say they have arrested 11 people and broken up an international gang that was involved in the illegal sale of World Cup tickets. The scheme is said to have earned the gang as much as $90m (£52m) per tournament and could have been operating for four World Cups. Some of the tickets seized were meant for sponsors, while others had been allocated to Brazil team officials. Police believe some of the tickets were sold to foreign tourists. Lucrative business Twenty simultaneous search warrants were enforced on Tuesday morning in an operation named "Jules Rimet". Jules Rimet was a president of the international football governing body, Fifa, and initiated the World Cup tournament in 1929. The original World Cup trophy - given to Brazil in perpetuity after their third World Cup triumph in 1970, and subsequently stolen - was named after him. The BBC's Wyre Davies, in Rio de Janeiro, says police were reportedly investigating the gang's operations in Brazil for the last three months ahead of the raids. Among items seized during the arrests were 100 tickets, computers, US dollars, mobile phones and documents. Police said the man they suspect of being the leader of the gang, Mohamadou Lamine Fofana, was an Algerian national who "had free access to restricted Fifa areas". Fabio Barucke, a senior police officer involved in the investigation, said that there were "clues which lead us to believe he could have ties to someone from Fifa". "His car had a sticker which gave him access to any private Fifa event", Mr Barucke explained. According to Mr Barucke, the suspects confessed to running the scam at four World Cups. "The gang goes to the host country. It's possible that they only work during the World Cups as their profit is so large they can sit back in between Cups." Those arrested could face charges of money laundering, criminal association and illegally selling tickets. TAGS abc breaking news, bbc, bbc football, bbc iplayer, bbc news, bbc news america, bbc persian, bbc sport, bbc weather, bbc world news, breaking celebrity news, breaking election news, breaking late news, breaking local news, breaking music news, breaking news, breaking news alerts, breaking news canada, breaking news headlines, breaking news in atlanta, breaking news in nigeria, breaking news india, breaking news pensacola florida, breaking news plane crash, breaking news story, breaking sports news, business expensive news home media world, christian world news, cnn, cnn breaking news, cnn money, cnn news, cnn news breaking news, cnn news world, detroit breaking news, global news, headline, headline news, health care technology news, hot latest global news, internet technology news, las vegas breaking news, latest breaking news, latest celebrity news, latest information technology news, latest music news, latest news, latest news headlines, latest news update, latest sports news, live breaking news, local breaking news, local news today, msn breaking news, nbc breaking news, nbc world news, news of the world, news report us world, news today news, news updated daily, solar technology news, sports news today, technology news, the latest news, today news, us news and world, us news and world report, us news and world report magazine, us news and world report web site, us news world report, world news, world news daily, world news headlines