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Ray Whelan, a longstanding senior executive for the Match fifa 15 ultimate team coins group of companies that has the exclusive contract to provide Fifa's hospitality packages until 2023, spent the night not in his suite at the Copacabana Palace Hotel but in a prison cell. His current position is head of Match Services, one of the related group of companies responsible for accommodation. Whelan is a former agent to Sir Bobby Charlton who works out of the company's base in Manchester. It also has offices in Zurich, close to Fifa House, and Rio. Managed from Cheadle by the Mexican brothers Jaime and Enrique Byrom, the Match group of companies has won a series of Fifa contracts to run ticketing, travel, accommodation and technology services at the World Cup since 1994.

Eyebrows were raised when Match was awarded the exclusive rights to hospitality and accommodation for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups but Fifa insisted it was an open tender. In 2011 Fifa announced that Match would continue as its exclusive contractor until 2023 in a deal said to be worth at least $300m. The brothers initially worked at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico as independent operators and won their first Fifa contract at the 1994 World Cup in the US. In the subsequent two decades they have become entwined with Fifa. The potential for embarrassment is huge. First, Sepp Blatter's nephew, Philippe Blatter, is chief executive of one of Match Hospitality's minority shareholders Infront Sports and Media.

Secondly, at a World Cup where entry to the stadiums has been largely restricted to rich, mostly white, Brazilians, the arrests shine a light on the huge sums involved in the hospitality operation. Even more worrying for Blatter is the prospect that the determined Rio police investigation could blow open the way in which tickets and hospitality packages have become the grease that oils Fifa's wheels. Scandals have echoed down the years. Occasionally, as with the former Concacaf president Jack Warner, they have burst into the spotlight. More often they have stayed within the walls of hotel lobbies and opulent suites. The luxury Copacabana Palace has become the heart of Fifa's operations at www.fifa14stores.co.uk this World Cup.