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SHOCKING: Former FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner ‘Stole’ £500 Thousand Donation Meant For Haiti Relief?

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Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner

Things are indeed set to get worse inside FIFA as the bribery and corruption allegations are getting horrific.

According a BBC report, the FBI have investigated the former FIFA Vice President-Jack Warner after discovering that the Trinidadian personally received $750,000 (£500,000) in donations sent in after the horrific 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Warner is alleged to have visited Haiti in the aftermath of the tragedy, and subsequently accepted $250,000 from FIFA and $500,000 from the Korean FA in the expectation that it would be passed on to victims.

The Korean FA did nothing wrong with the donation but this is where it gets nasty. The report claims that while the money was paid into a Trinidad and Tobago FA account, it was apparently channelled into a specific account controlled solely by Warner in his capacity as a special adviser.

The US Justice Department says the money which was meant for relief operations “was placed in that account ‘at Warner’s direction’ and that it was ultimately put to his ‘personal use’.”

Warner has denied this and has threatened to reveal an “avalanche of evidence” against everyone at FIFA including Sepp Blatter. For the US Justice Department, Warner is part of of the many FIFA officials charged with the running of a criminal enterprise that involved more than $150 million in bribes, and faces extradition.

This post was published on June 9, 2015 12:32 PM

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