Warner loses Privy Council appeal and faces extradition to US to face racketeering charges

November 17 - Football's most wanted former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has lost his appeal to the UK's Privy Council and can be extradited from Trinidad to face multiple charges of corruption in the United States.

Warner was one of the biggest fish named in the US Department of Justice indictments in May 2015, which cited more than 40 FIFA lawmakers.

Warner is charged with multiple counts of fraud and corruption totaling more than $40 million, as well as other money laundering and corruption counts dating back more than 30 years.< /p>
The United States made an extradition request to Trinidad and Tobago in July 2015, and on September 21, 2015, the T&T Attorney General authorized extradition proceedings against Warner for 29 counts of fraud, corruption and money laundering.

Following a series of appeals arguing that his extradition was unlawful, Warner was allowed to take his case to the Privy Council in London, the highest court of appeal for several Commonwealth countries.

Warner's extradition will rekindle the so-called FIFAgate affair in the Caribbean where Warner ruled as Concacaf president and as an eminence, more often than not, closely linked to the former FIFA president , Sepp Blatter.

The awarding of World Cup television contracts to Warner affiliates and the rumors surrounding the cash-for-votes scandal in the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the Cup 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be at the center of attention.

The DOJ alleges that Warner received $5 million through various shell companies to vote for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup.

Warner has previously stated that if he were extradited to the United States, he would trigger a "tsunami" of information about FIFA and its officials.

Warner's successor as Concacaf president, Jeff Webb, one of the first seven FIFA members arrested at the Swiss Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, is still awaiting sentencing despite having pleaded guilty to corruption charges in November 2015.

Now it looks like US law enforcement has their man. The question is who else will they now get on his side.

Contact the author of this story at moc.l1668701958labto1668701958ofdlr1668701958owedi1668701958sni@n1668701958osloh1668701958cin.l1668701958uap1668701958

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November 17 - Football's most wanted former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has lost his appeal to the UK's Privy Council and can be extradited from Trinidad to face multiple charges of corruption in the United States.

Warner was one of the biggest fish named in the US Department of Justice indictments in May 2015, which cited more than 40 FIFA lawmakers.

Warner is charged with multiple counts of fraud and corruption totaling more than $40 million, as well as other money laundering and corruption counts dating back more than 30 years.< /p>

The United States made an extradition request to Trinidad and Tobago in July 2015, and on September 21, 2015, the T&T Attorney General authorized extradition proceedings against Warner for 29 counts of fraud, corruption and money laundering.

Following a series of appeals arguing that his extradition was unlawful, Warner was allowed to take his case to the Privy Council in London, the highest court of appeal for several Commonwealth countries.

Warner's extradition will rekindle the so-called FIFAgate affair in the Caribbean where Warner ruled as Concacaf president and as an eminence, more often than not, closely linked to the former FIFA president , Sepp Blatter.

The awarding of World Cup television contracts to Warner affiliates and the rumors surrounding the cash-for-votes scandal in the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the Cup 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be at the center of attention.

The DOJ alleges that Warner received $5 million through various shell companies to vote for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup.

Warner has previously stated that if he were extradited to the United States, he would trigger a "tsunami" of information about FIFA and its officials.

Warner's successor as Concacaf president, Jeff Webb, one of the first seven FIFA members arrested at the Swiss Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, is still awaiting sentencing despite having pleaded guilty to corruption charges in November 2015.

Now it looks like US law enforcement has their man. The question is who else will they now get on his side.

Contact the author of this story at moc.l1668701958labto1668701958ofdlr1668701958owedi1668701958sni@n1668701958osloh1668701958cin.l1668701958uap1668701958