PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Jun 4 2015 – Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner says he is fearful for his life but that he will reveal all he knows about corruption at the world football body.
In a paid television broadcast on Wednesday night, Warner, 72, told his audience that he would also link FIFA to the 2010 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has stoutly denied ever receiving funds from Warner for the campaign of her ruling United National Congress (UNC) in the 2010 election, even though Warner, who served as chairman of the party, contested a seat on its behalf.
Warner is one of 14 present and former FIFA officials that the US justice department alleges accepted bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than US$150 million over a 24-year period.
In his broadcast, Warner who stepped down from world football in 2011 following a bribery scandal involving Caribbean football executives, said he had given lawyers documents outlining the links between FIFA, its funding, himself and the 2010 election in Trinidad and Tobago. He said the transactions also included FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
“I will no longer keep secrets for them who actively seek to destroy the country,” he said in the broadcast entitled “The gloves are off”.
