The ax is he close? Still, the Ethics Commission ended Tuesday in Warner’s career: the former vice president of FIFA, the man with whom Blatter has signed an unfavorable contract with FIFA, under Swiss law, was suspended “for life from any football-related activity” for having “proposed or accepted illegal payments”, ie of bribes.
Aged 72 years, Warner, former head of the Confederation of North American, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF), and still president of the Caribbean Federation (CFU) until morning, still bound to an extradition request from the United States. Arrested in Port of Spain, in late May, he expects the hearing of the Trinidadian law on his record, scheduled on December 2.
Mr. Warner is one of nine leaders of world football arrested May 27, with five businessmen, at the request of US authorities, having received 150 million dollars in bribes and kickbacks since the early
1990. This is notably for its alleged links with Warner that Swiss justice Friday opened a criminal case against Sepp Blatter for “mismanagement” (abuse of corporate assets) and “breach of trust”. Accusations of helvète prosecutors are based on a contract that the Valais of 79 years would have signed with Warner, whereby he would have given it to a value well below the television broadcasting rights market in the area of Global 2010 and 2014.
– Blatter and Platini defense –
Monday, it is on the other part of the charges of the Swiss justice that Mr. Blatter had directed its defense, that of a payment of 2 million francs Swiss Michel Platini, in February 2011, “supposedly for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002″ by the boss of UEFA.
Blatter said Monday evening via a statement from his lawyers: it was a “justified retribution” for the work of “presidential advisor” of the former Ballon d’Or triple. Indeed, Platini, Blatter after helping to get elected to the head of FIFA in 1998, was offered by the Swiss a 1999 councilor in 2002.
Monday evening, Mr Platini also reiterated that this payment corresponded to the period from 1998 to 2002 during which he had been “used by Fifa,” while working from Paris. How has he explained the delay of 9 years in the payment? “After the initial payments were made, the final balance of 2 million Swiss francs was paid in February 2011,” Platini said simply.
The affirmation of his entourage that Fifa, while entangled in another case, did not have the cash at the time to finish the payment, it seems questionable: “The explanation holds not at the time Fifa had carried out a securitization transaction and had the means to pay Platini, “he told AFP Tuesday a former top executive of FIFA.
– Blatter right in his boots – Keeping
respect the silence on investigations and the persons referred, the Ethics Commission of the investigating chamber of Fifa has a priori enough elements to investigate the two men.
But another former head of Fifa, “suspicion is not worth evidence, and in these circumstances, the Committee could not suspend Blatter”. Neither Platini fortiori.
In the storm, still has the Valais right in his boots: he reiterated Monday night wanting to “remain president” of FIFA as planned, until February 26, the date of the election of his successor.
One candidate to his succession, the South Korean Chung Mong-joon billionaire, has asked him Tuesday the creation of a “task emergency force”, a sort of crisis committee to run the institution and enable the secretariat of FIFA “to operate without disruption.”
Ironically, Chung would itself, according to the press, investigated the ethics committee of FIFA, for gifts in 2010 in Pakistan and Haiti.
Minutes after the announcement of the suspension to life Jack Warner, the Swiss court said it had authorized the extradition to the US of another of the arrested leaders May 27 in Zurich, the Costa Rican Eduardo Li, member of the executive committee of FIFA and former president of the Federation of his country.
total of three of these leaders had their extradition authorized by the Swiss justice with the Venezuelan Rafael Esquivel, president of the national federation, and Eugenio Figueredo, vice president and member of the executive committee of FIFA. They will be really extradited only after examining their possible calls.
One of the nine leaders arrested in late May in Switzerland, Jeffrey Webb (Cayman Islands), Vice President and member of the executive committee of FIFA, has so far been effectively extradited voluntarily. After pleading not guilty, he was released July 18 on bail of $ 10 million.
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