Intro:

FIFA director of marketing, Thierry Weil, denied claims by police in Brazil that they have identified a Fifa official alleged to have been involved in the illegal sale of World Cup tickets. The suspected touts are accused of illegally reselling tickets, including some originally allocated to players. Police say the gang earned as much as $90m (£52m) per tournament and could have operated at four World Cups.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Thierry Weil, FIFA director of marketing (on reports that there are still many tickets available on the black market):

"We can only comment on what we heard from the police and we were told that's the only tickets. We have not been mentioned in any shape or form what is the volume of tickets they sold. If the police give you the numbers, they should give us the numbers as well. Which is not the case. Excuse me, I cannot comment on that."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Thierry Weil, FIFA director of marketing (on reports linking a FIFA official to the ticketing scam):

"A normal investigation is that if they would have had actually a name of an official of FIFA believe me, in the meantime they would have come and they would have investigated and requested to speak to the person. What I know is that there is nobody from FIFA who has been approached by any of the police in any way or form."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Thierry Weil, FIFA director of marketing (on whether Humberto Grondona was involved in the ticketing scam):

"Again, the tickets we have gotten from the police -- there was no ticket there with such a name from the son of Mr Grondona. There was no ticket from any official actually in those 141 tickets."