March 28 – The FBI investigation into corruption in football has taken a Caribbean turn according to a report from news agency Reuters.
Daryan Warner, the son of former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, is said to have become a co-operating witness in the investigation but there has been no detail of his role Daryan Warner or who the FBI are looking to charge and on what counts.
The FBI has been reported to be examining more than $500,000 in payments made by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) over the past 20 years to an offshore company headed by Chuck Blazer, a FIFA executive committee member who is retiring this year. During this period during which Jack Warner was also head of the CFU.
Blazer said that the payments were repayments to him by Warner of “a significant amount of money” which Blazer had loaned to Warner in 2004.
Warner has not been charged with any wrongdoing and is, in any case, outside the domestic US jurisdiction of the FBI.
The New York-based FBI squad which is conducting the football investigation is a squad that specialises in ‘Eurasian Organized Crime’.
A report that Chelsea’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich had been detained and interviewed by the FBI in the US has been denied by Abramovich’s representatives. The original rumours, from Russia, said that Abramovich had been questioned over the bidding process surrounding the 2018 and 2002 World Cups.
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