The Sydney father behind a World Cup ticketing scandal

By Eamonn Duff
Updated July 20 2014 - 2:18am, first published 1:12am
Locked out of the World Cup: Silva and his family in Brazil, left, the bogus invoice sent by Alain Barataud, centre, and Barataud posing at the beach.
Locked out of the World Cup: Silva and his family in Brazil, left, the bogus invoice sent by Alain Barataud, centre, and Barataud posing at the beach.

According to his three Facebook pages, Alain Barataud is a professional football player, a recruiter and a Frenchman living ‘‘in the land of kangaroos’’, who travels the ‘‘international circuit’’ playing poker.

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