FIFA Scandal Update - Former Executive Committee member Jack Warner took cash meant for Haiti quake victims

Fresh corruption charges relating to £130million in bribes and kickbacks were laid against a further 16 officials including six present or former members of FIFA’s executive committee.

The worst excess, according to the US Justice Department, involved disgraced former CONCACAF presidents Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb stealing funds meant for the poorest countries in their North, central America and Caribbean confederation.

Warner, who is fighting extradition to the USA from Trinidad, allegedly even diverted £500,000 intended for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said: ‘The betrayal of trust is truly outrageous. The scale of corruption alleged is unconscionable.’ The indictment read: ‘Certain of the defendants and their co-conspirators, including Jack Warner and Jeffrey Webb, took advantage of opportunities to embezzle or personally appropriate funds, including those intended for disaster relief.’

In another extraordinary day, two more FIFA ExCo members, CONCACAF president Alfredo Hawit of Honduras and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, the CONMEBOL leader, were arrested in
dawn raids at the Baur au Lac Hotel in Zurich.