By Andrew Warshaw
June 4 – FIFA have hired former FBI director Louis Freeh to head the evidence-gathering team looking into claims that Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner offered $40,000 (£24,000) bribes to Caribbean voters during the recent Presidential campaign.
FIFA confirmed that Freeh Group International (FGI) Europe was “mandated” to help its Ethics Committee, which temporarily suspended both Executive Committee members earlier this week and expect the case to be concluded by the end of July.
Freeh’s group will work under the supervision of Robert Torres, the Ethics Committee member from Guam.
Freeh founded FGI after leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993-2001.
He previously served six years as a special agent.
His work will include interviewing Caribbean Football Union (CFU) officials who allegedly were offered cash bribes at a meeting in Warner’s native Trinidad to back Biin Hammam’s FIFA Presidential bid.
Bin Hammam withdraw his candidacy hours before he was suspended.
A source close to Chuck Blazer, the American FIFA Executive Committee member who blew the whistle on the scandal, told insideworldfootball there was “more to come” but Warner has pledged to continue hitting FIFA with the “football tsunami” he has promised.
Warner told reporters that he would reveal details of an email exchange with Blatter when he meets supporters at a rally tomorrow.
“The contents of the email are crystal clear as to what transpired,” Warner said.
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