Jack Warner, a former Trinidad and Tobago government minister, has responded to a football association’s April report that accused him of a multimillion-dollar fraud, calling the report “flawed.”
According to the Caribbean News Corporation, Mr. Warner said at a press conference Tuesday that the report was a “deliberate plan to mislead.”
From 1990 until his resignation in 2011, Mr. Warner served as president of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football. During that time he reportedly steered $26 million of CONCACAF funds from the international FIFA football association to the construction of a 16-acre complex in Trinidad called the “Center of Excellence.”
Though he gave the impression that the land belonged to CONCACAF, Mr. Warner actually owned it, the organisation alleged in its April “Commission of Integrity” report. Additionally, Mr. Warner “induced” FIFA to send money that should have been used for the centre’s development to bank accounts that he controlled.
See the May 30, 2013 edition for full coverage.
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