RIO DE JANEIRO: Match Services, world football federation FIFA’s commercial partner, has won one of the legal tangles hanging over as its own legacy from the World Cup finals in Brazil.

CADE, Brazil’s ‘administrative council for economic defence’, has ruled that Match Services was neither charging abusive prices (or benefitting from abusive margins) nor engaging in “tying sales” in its accommodation operations at the World Cup.

The antitrust authority dismissed all claims and allegations made in 2013 by the Federal Public Prosecutor as well as by Embratur, Brazil’s tourist authority.

Still outstanding in the Brazilian court system are ticket-tour allegations against Match director Ray Whelan. Match and Whelan deny all charges.

See: http://keirradnedge.com/2015/01/21/match-services/

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