FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges

[smithmj678]

^ As you would know by now the Trinidad Express is a highly Pro PNM paper. Trini Media has always been biased towards Indo Trinidadians. It is also no surprise that these same Trini Media has also always been Pro PNM.
2 Significant traits of the PNM and their Media are Anti Indian and Anti Hindu

J smith

[rfari]

^ As you would know by now the Trinidad Express is a highly Pro PNM paper. Trini Media has always been biased towards Indo Trinidadians. It is also no surprise that these same Trini Media has also always been Pro PNM.
2 Significant traits of the PNM and their Media are Anti Indian and Anti Hindu

J smith

What about holiday distribution? Check this ched out
viewtopic.php?t=630561

[shogun]

Good afternoon sir.

I would like to point out that as a moderator, you do not have the right to engage in political debates or for the very least you are not allowed to take sides, which you have clearly been doing. This is no different than the police service saying they are pro PNM.
What you are doing here is a great disservice to both this website and our country.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
How am I to know that you won't ban me for speaking negatively about the PNM?

J Smith.

[smithmj678]

^ As you would know by now the Trinidad Express is a highly Pro PNM paper. Trini Media has always been biased towards Indo Trinidadians. It is also no surprise that these same Trini Media has also always been Pro PNM.
2 Significant traits of the PNM and their Media are Anti Indian and Anti Hindu

J smith

What about holiday distribution? Check this ched out
viewtopic.php?t=630561

I think we have too much holidays in this country to begin with. That thread makes some sense yes there are more Christian holidays than Hindu holidays, waaay more. But introducing more holidays would cause a bigger problem.

What we should be doing is reducing holidays not creating more, regardless of religious reasons.
If you want to make it fair, remove some of the Christian Holidays and even it out.

J smith.

[eliteauto]

I would like to point out that as a moderator, you do not have the right to engage in political debates or for the very least you are not allowed to take sides, which you have clearly been doing. This is no different than the police service saying they are pro PNM.
What you are doing here is a great disservice to both this website and our country.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
How am I to know that you won't ban me for speaking negatively about the PNM?

J Smith.

Apparently you do not understand that finding your posts illogical, emotive, and disingenuous is a side that can be taken independently of any political bias. You seem to operate in the realm of "Us and Them" so anything else is beyond you, what should really be of concern is that I'm both a moderator and a member of the TTPS, which means after your ban I could come arrest you

[rfari]

And he call me dangerous :ROFL:

[Bezman]

I would like to point out that as a moderator, you do not have the right to engage in political debates or for the very least you are not allowed to take sides, which you have clearly been doing. This is no different than the police service saying they are pro PNM.
What you are doing here is a great disservice to both this website and our country.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
How am I to know that you won't ban me for speaking negatively about the PNM?

J Smith.

Apparently you do not understand that finding your posts illogical, emotive, and disingenuous is a side that can be taken independently of any political bias. You seem to operate in the realm of "Us and Them" so anything else is beyond you, what should really be of concern is that I'm both a moderator and a member of the TTPS, which means after your ban I could come arrest you

[shogun]

Lmao.

[megadoc1]

He ban already?

[Chimera]

I recently was reading about kriyaan Singh life story though. That fella just awesome. Imagine you paralyzed from the nipples down and you compete and finish hardcore twice. You are a practicing vet. You taking all your senator salary to pay for wheel chairs for those who in need as well as now taking money from your vet practice to buy wheelchairs for people.

[Habit7]

I blame Kamla for her part in the lead up to all these events

[bluefete]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -away.html

Millions Looted 06.05.15 5:25 AM ET

How FIFA Villain Jack Warner Keeps Getting Away

A fortune in Haiti earthquake relief, $10 million from South Africa, $2 million from Qatar. Trinidad and Tobago’s Jack Warner allegedly pocketed it all—but he’s the one vowing revenge.



Jack Warner fails to mention one thing about the FIFA money he says was used to influence the 2010 election in his native Trinidad and Tobago.

He neglects to say that the cash appears to have come from the millions of FIFA dollars looted by none other than Jack Warner.

Warner would have us believe that the money came direct from FIFA on instructions from the now-outgoing president, Sepp Blatter.

Warner further says the ultimate beneficiary was the big winner of the 2010 election, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

To support his allegations, Warner has leaked at least five checks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars made out to Ross Advertising of Trinidad, days before the agency reportedly sought to bring in Henry Bernard Campbell, a political whiz who helped President Obama get elected.

The checks were issued by Jamad Limited, a company widely reported to be owned by Warner.

He is now apparently seeking to portray himself as a middleman, as if Blatter and FIFA had a huge interest in Trinidad and Tobago’s internal politics.

Back in 2010, few people were more keenly interested in the election than Warner himself. He was a candidate for parliament and a big-time backer of the then-opposition leader, Persad-Bissessar.

Campbell had landed in Trinidad in April 2010 to assist the opposition, which explains why the ruling party contrived to have him denied entry to the country. The government even sought to fine American Airlines for flying him in.

Ross Advertising is said to have nonetheless proven able to direct an Obama-style social media campaign that was instrumental in the opposition’s victory.

Warner became a member of parliament. Persad-Bissessar became the prime minister and made Warner the new interior minister, allowing him to serve as acting prime minister when she traveled outside the country.

Warner remained a member of FIFA’s executive committee as well as the head of CONCACAF, the governing body that oversees soccer in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Warner seems to have been a kind of genius at grabbing FIFA funds. He reportedly raked in millions for a soccer Center of Excellence built on land he owned. He is said to have scored millions more that were intended for everything from bonuses for the Trinidad World Cup team to the country’s allocation of World Cup tickets. He allegedly pocketed a fortune collected for earthquake relief in Haiti. A photo shows him arriving at the scene of the disaster shouldering half a case of bottled water.

Warner is also alleged to have taken millions in bribes for votes on which countries should host the World Cup. Court papers charge him with taking $10 million from South Africa.

He is further said to have accepted some $2 million in connection with Qatar’s successful bid. That money was paid to Jamad Limited in 2011, the Warner-owned company that paid out the money to the advertising firm that same year.

As minister of the interior, Warner would have been in a position to ensure that a Qatari representative had no trouble passing through customs in Trinidad with more than $1 million in alleged bribe money.

A chunk of that cash was divided into $40,000 batches and placed in manila envelopes, to be distributed to members of the Caribbean soccer association who were addressed by the Qatari representative.

One devoutly honest member was so shocked by the bribe attempt that he photographed the money and reported it to Chuck Blazer, the general secretary of CONCACAF. Blazer happened to be Warner’s prime partner in graft.

Blazer apparently understood that if he did nothing, the honest member was sure to go elsewhere. Blazer reported the bribe attempt to FIFA, declaring himself outraged. FIFA declared itself outraged and ordered an inquiry.

The inquiry diligently catalogued numerous misdeeds by both Warner and Blazer. Warner was expelled. A FIFA official made a pronouncement whose irony would only become apparent later.

“In the case of Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer this has far bigger implications than just [FIFA’s] Ethics Committee, or the rules of the game,” said Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA’s Audit and Compliance Committee, at a press conference. “There is sufficient suspicion that they have gone against the law and this will become an issue for the FBI and the IRS.”

Scala added, “So here the Ethics Committee and the world of FIFA stops; and people who have gone against the law will have to deal with the law.”

In Trinidad, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar declared herself outraged and disowned Warner. He announced that he was resigning as both a minister and a member of parliament.

“I cannot remain silent any longer!”

But in the very next breath he announced that he would be running to replace himself in that very same seat in parliament when the special election was held 90 days hence.

“The character assassination, the slander, the ridicule of my family, and the abandonment of longtime friends—in spite of the hurt, in spite of the indignities I have experienced, I stand here tonight void of hatred, animosity, or ill will for my political leader,” he insisted.

Warner ran as a candidate of a new political party he founded for that express reason and won.

“Thank you for this resounding victory,” he told the election night crowd.

Warner seems to have been seeking revenge against FIFA and Blatter in particular when he leaked a handwritten note to himself from the organization’s general secretary, Jérôme Valcke. It concerned a deal in which Warner paid $1 million for television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cup in the Caribbean region.

“Here is the agreement signed by the P [President Blatter]. This deal has not been through all normal boards or comm,” the note read. “Hence so I’m asking to make no publicity on it for the time being. Kind regards, Jérôme.”

Warner now suggested that Blatter had made the deal essentially to purchase Warner’s support in FIFA. Warner subsequently sold the rights, turning his $1 million into $20 million.

By then, Warner and Blazer had indeed reached the attention of the FBI and the IRS. Blazer agreed to become an informant, apparently telling all he knew about Warner, which was a great deal. Blazer also used a miniature microphone concealed in a keychain to record conversations with other FIFA officials.

Warner was among the 14 FIFA officials and associates past and present who were indicted. Blatter managed to get reelected, but then a letter surfaced from the South African Football Association to none other than General Secretary Valcke of FIFA. The letter asked that $10 million earmarked for South Africa instead go to a program that was founded by Warner.

Blazer had told investigators that Warner had received a $10 million bribe from the South Africans. Valcke is just a step away from Blatter, who suddenly announced his intention to resign less than a week after his reelection.

Warner was arrested in Trinidad and held overnight before being freed on bail. He arrived in parliament the following day apologizing for having missed the previous session.

“I was in prison,” he explained. “For charges I know nothing about.”

At a series of press conferences and appearances, Warner pledged to fight extradition to the United States and continue his present campaign for another term in parliament. He seems to think that reelection will make him less likely to end up in a Brooklyn courtroom facing 20 years or more.

Warner seems to have been seeking to score with his constituents as well as revenge himself on both Blatter and Persad-Bissessar by alleging that FIFA sought to influence the 2010 election in Trinidad through him.

“I cannot remain silent any longer!” Warner declared.

The Trinidad government said it was sending copies of the Jamad checks to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who had launched the FIFA investigation when she was the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn. Persad-Bissessar dismissed Warner’s allegations as fiction.

“I, Kamla, received no money from Jack Warner,” she told a local newspaper. “That is the God’s truth. I cannot speak to any contractual arrangement the gentleman would have had with Ross Advertising or any other advertising agency.”

By then, newspapers and sites around the world were announcing that Warner had promised to “tell all.”

Just watch out for what Jack Warner fails to say about Jack Warner.

[bluefete]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... land-henry



A dark day for Fifa after claims of arms deals for World Cup votes


Owen Gibson
Friday 5 June 2015 19.36 BST
Last modified on Saturday 6 June 2015 00.37 BST


The shockwaves from the corruption scandal that brought down Sepp Blatter continue to reverberate, with claims in Germany that the 2006 World Cup vote was influenced by a shipment of rocket-propelled grenades and allegations in Egypt that a Fifa executive solicited bribes during the 2010 bidding race.

As seven Fifa officials continued to fight extradition to the US over claims they were involved in a “World Cup of fraud”, Blatter’s right-hand man Jérôme Valcke remained at the centre of speculation over what he knew about a $10m payment to the disgraced former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner.

And pressure on the Football Association of Ireland also grew amid the fallout from its admission that it agreed a secret €5m (£3.6m) payment after threatening legal action in the wake of Thierry Henry’s handball that led to the goal that ended their chances of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup.
Fifa payment to FAI over Henry handball was 'loan to build stadium' – as it happened
FAI chief executive John Delaney claims Fifa paid €5m to avoid legal action after France’s World Cup 2010 play-off win over the Republic of Ireland
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The FAI chief executive, John Delaney, said the payment was agreed after he confronted Blatter about Henry’s role in Ireland’s World Cup play-off defeat. Fifa has claimed the payment was a loan towards the construction of a stadium that was later written off.

The Irish taoiseach, Enda Kenny, called on Delaney to provide more detail about the situation, after Delaney admitted receiving the payment in a radio interview on Thursday. “This is quite extraordinary,” said Kenny. “But I would say that any questions that need to be answered here in the interests of transparency and accountability … John Delaney should answer and will answer all of those questions, I’m quite sure.”

As it emerged that the Ireland players had no knowledge of the payment, amid calls for Delaney to explain why it was not revealed at the time, Kenny said he believed the FAI chief executive’s position remained “tenable”. The FAI last night released a detailed statement and bank documents to prove it had acted properly, also arguing it had suffered reputational damage after Blatter made light of an earlier meeting at a press conference.
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Elsewhere, the downfall of Blatter has sparked an avalanche of claims about major decisions taken by Fifa in recent years. The German newspaper Die Zeit reported on Friday that the then chancellor Gerhard Shröder supplied arms to Saudi Arabia in return for support in Germany’s World Cup bid, in which it defeated South Africa 12-11 in the final round in controversial circumstances. The claims alleged that the government lifted arms restrictions days before the vote in order to make the shipment and help swing Saudi Arabia’s vote to Germany.

The claims mean that the votes for the 1998, 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2022 tournaments are now under scrutiny in some way. Brazilian authorities and the FBI are also looking into the contracts signed in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup.

FBI sources have confirmed that it is investigating claims relating to all of those tournaments except 2006 and Egypt, one of the bidders for 2010, has now alleged that Warner – who has vigorously denied wrongdoing but was charged in the US indictment – asked for a $7m bribe.

“I did not imagine that Fifa was so corrupt,” the former Egypt sports minister Aley Eddine Helal told ONTV in Cairo. “Jack Warner demanded $7m before the voting. Egypt’s FA president El-Dahshori Harb met with the Fifa official in the United Arab Emirates and informed me that he wanted a $7m bribe.”Helal said he and other officials on the 2010 bid committee have been silent for the 11 years since losing because they did not have any proof to back “the suspicions we have always had about the disgraceful way we lost”.

Egypt failed to poll a single vote and the tournament was awarded to South Africa, which was desperate to clinch the right to host the World Cup after losing out so narrowly to Germany for 2006. New evidence has also emerged that appears to confirm that Danny Jordaan, the leader of the 2010 World Cup bid and organising committee, and the Fifa secretary general, Valcke, knew about a disputed $10m payment to Warner’s Concacaf confederation.

In a statement this week, Fifa insisted that neither Blatter nor Valcke initiated the payment but a letter quickly emerged that showed the Fifa general secretary was aware of the detail in 2008. A new leaked letter from Jordaan, dated December 2007, appears to be the first time he outlines the scheme to Valcke. He suggests that the $10m, which the US alleges ended up in Warner’s Bank of America account, be deducted by Fifa from the monies owed to the World Cup organising committee and sent to Concacaf. Fifa and the South African Football Federation have denied wrongdoing, claiming the payment was made in good faith to support the World Cup’s Diaspora Programme in the Caribbean. Valcke insisted this week he was “beyond reproach”.

Uefa’s president, Michel Platini, arrived in Zurich on Friday to consider his options a week after frustration at seeing his chosen challenger to Blatter, Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein, defeated turned to relief at seeing Blatter deposed. All six global confederations are lying low, biding their time as they work out how to best calibrate their positions while Blatter attempts to cling on to power until promised elections between December and March. The FBI investigation is ongoing and further indictments are expected to follow, while US investigators and Swiss prosecutors are looking into the 2018-22 bidding race.

David Gill, the Football Association vice-chairman, has ruled out standing for the Fifa presidency.

[The_Honourable]

TV6: FBI questions Hema Ramkissoon in FIFA probe.

Hema sues TV6

ATTORNEYS representing CNC3 talk-show host Hema Ramkissoon yesterday issued a pre-action protocol letter to investigative journalist Mark Bassant and CCN TV6, threatening legal action over a news report on Tuesday which stated Ramkissoon was questioned by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with regard to the corruption probe into former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner.

The letter, which was issued by attorney Christlyn Moore on behalf of British QC, Vincent Nelson, said Ramkissoon, who once worked for Warner as his personal assistant between 2008 and 2011, was never interviewed by FBI agents, as was claimed in the report.

The attorneys said CCN TV6 has 12 hours to respond to the letter after its receipt or, in default, legal action will be initiated. “In the meantime, it must be clearly understood that my client reserves all of her rights in this matter. As indicated earlier, if any attempt is made by you or any other person associated with the OCM (One Caribbean Media) Group to further publish these defamatory statements, legal action will be taken without further notice,” the letter stated.

Source: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150605 ... a-sues-tv6

[neilsingh100]

TV6: FBI questions Hema Ramkissoon in FIFA probe.

Hema sues TV6

ATTORNEYS representing CNC3 talk-show host Hema Ramkissoon yesterday issued a pre-action protocol letter to investigative journalist Mark Bassant and CCN TV6, threatening legal action over a news report on Tuesday which stated Ramkissoon was questioned by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with regard to the corruption probe into former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner.

The letter, which was issued by attorney Christlyn Moore on behalf of British QC, Vincent Nelson, said Ramkissoon, who once worked for Warner as his personal assistant between 2008 and 2011, was never interviewed by FBI agents, as was claimed in the report.

The attorneys said CCN TV6 has 12 hours to respond to the letter after its receipt or, in default, legal action will be initiated. “In the meantime, it must be clearly understood that my client reserves all of her rights in this matter. As indicated earlier, if any attempt is made by you or any other person associated with the OCM (One Caribbean Media) Group to further publish these defamatory statements, legal action will be taken without further notice,” the letter stated.

Source: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150605 ... a-sues-tv6

Hema should reveal how she benefited from her previous affiliation with Warner and CONCACAF. She likes to reminisce often sharing pictures with herself and David Beckham and Prince William on her FB page. Now she holds exclusive interviews with Andrew Jennings on her show. I am sure Warner will surely have something so say about her but just like Kamla she appears to be a hypocrite.

[pugboy]

Jack need a more professional looking security
chap looking and moving very jokey

[bluefete]

TV6: FBI questions Hema Ramkissoon in FIFA probe.

Hema sues TV6

ATTORNEYS representing CNC3 talk-show host Hema Ramkissoon yesterday issued a pre-action protocol letter to investigative journalist Mark Bassant and CCN TV6, threatening legal action over a news report on Tuesday which stated Ramkissoon was questioned by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with regard to the corruption probe into former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner.

The letter, which was issued by attorney Christlyn Moore on behalf of British QC, Vincent Nelson, said Ramkissoon, who once worked for Warner as his personal assistant between 2008 and 2011, was never interviewed by FBI agents, as was claimed in the report.

The attorneys said CCN TV6 has 12 hours to respond to the letter after its receipt or, in default, legal action will be initiated. “In the meantime, it must be clearly understood that my client reserves all of her rights in this matter. As indicated earlier, if any attempt is made by you or any other person associated with the OCM (One Caribbean Media) Group to further publish these defamatory statements, legal action will be taken without further notice,” the letter stated.

Source: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150605 ... a-sues-tv6

I wonder if she also sent a PAP letter to the Mirror?

[bluefete]

TV6: FBI questions Hema Ramkissoon in FIFA probe.

Hema sues TV6

ATTORNEYS representing CNC3 talk-show host Hema Ramkissoon yesterday issued a pre-action protocol letter to investigative journalist Mark Bassant and CCN TV6, threatening legal action over a news report on Tuesday which stated Ramkissoon was questioned by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with regard to the corruption probe into former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner.

The letter, which was issued by attorney Christlyn Moore on behalf of British QC, Vincent Nelson, said Ramkissoon, who once worked for Warner as his personal assistant between 2008 and 2011, was never interviewed by FBI agents, as was claimed in the report.



Source: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150605 ... a-sues-tv6

Oh yes, the old play on words.

They might be right. She was not interviewed, she was interrogated!

A huge difference.

[PapaC]

I eh know nah boy Jack, like i might lose that $1 bet...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33039014
Fifa corruption: Documents show details of Jack Warner 'bribes'

Media caption Ed Thomas reports on what happened to $10m sent from Fifa to accounts controlled by Jack Warner
A BBC investigation has seen evidence that details what happened to the $10m sent from Fifa to accounts controlled by former vice-president Jack Warner.

The money, sent on behalf of South Africa, was meant to be used for its Caribbean diaspora legacy programme.

But documents suggest Mr Warner used the payment for cash withdrawals, personal loans and to launder money.

The 72-year-old, who has been indicted by the FBI for corruption, denies all claims of wrongdoing.

The papers seen by the BBC detail three wire transfers by Fifa.

In the three transactions - on 4 January, 1 February and 10 March 2008 - funds totalling $10m (£6.5m) from Fifa accounts were received into Concacaf accounts controlled by Jack Warner.

At the time, he was in charge of the body, which governs football in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

[pugboy]

all who jack give money and put in us banking system must be buying toilet paper now

[BRZ]

The only country where there is evidence against you and you more angry and boldface than everyone else. Typical Trinidadian mentality.

[bluefete]

The only country where there is evidence against you and you more angry and boldface than everyone else. Typical Trinidadian mentality.

Typical PP mentality too - deny, deny deny and spin it around.

[bluefete]

[bluefete]

[bluefete]

According to the BBC: 'The documents reveal how the money was spent and moved around.

'JTA Supermarkets, a large chain in Trinidad, received $4,860,000 from the accounts.

'The money was paid in instalments from January 2008 to March 2009. The largest payment was $1,350,000, paid in February 2008.'

It has also been claimed that Warner accepted a $1 million bribe from Morocco to secure his support for their 2010 World Cup bid, although it is alleged he later double-crossed them and instead backed the South African bid as they had paid more cash.

However, despite being on an INTERPOL wanted list, Jack Warner is still incredibly popular in his native Trinidad and Tobago.

[The_Honourable]

JTA Supermarket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

[toyolink]

Mr Warner just aint catching a 'break'.
The international media is unrelenting and everybody who in some way fed at the Warner 'watering hole' maybe jumpy.
Clearly, the numbers of locals who par-took of the Warner manna may run into the thousands.
....Are all of the beneficiaries accomplices?
The 'Robin Hood syndrome' was at work here!

[src1983]

Notice how the FIU is still silent on this whole matter

Not even a statement

[bluefete]

But that Miss Japan though ......

[bluefete]

Bribe $$ to Repay Debt
Bribe $$ to repay credit card, bank loan

Published on Jun 6, 2015, 10:08 pm AST
By Camini Marajh



Port of Spain: Indicted football administrator and one of two of Interpol's most wanted FIFA official, Jack Warner spent a significant portion of the US$10 million bribe he collected from South Africa on paying off credit card debt and a personal loan held in a Republic bank account in his name, according to a US law enforcement source.

More than half of the bribe money sent from FIFA's UBS account in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2008 to three Warner controlled RBL accounts went towards what the US-issued indictment described as “scheme #1- Wire Fraud and Money Laundering”, or black market currency trade through legitimate Trinidad-owned businesses like the JTA Group and International Shipping Ltd (ISL), among others, sources with knowledge of the situation have disclosed.

Both business interests have confirmed, in separate and short interviews with the Sunday Express, that they unknowingly facilitated Warner's money laundering by purchasing US dollar bank drafts from his personal accountant and main man of business, Kenny Rampersad.

Rampersad is a certified accountant with offices at 3A Queen's Park West, Port of Spain, and was the beneficiary of all of the accounting briefs from four of the football bodies associated with Warner, including CONCACAF, the regional football body for North and Central America and the Caribbean and the CFU (Caribbean Football Union).

The US indictment, unsealed by a Brooklyn, New York, USA, court on May 27, in detailing the wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering charges against Warner, pointed to his decades- old use of business and other “intermediaries” to launder vast flows of corruptly received cash through currency trade transactions and financial structuring of the TTD repayments to a slew of Warner-controlled bank accounts.

The indictment did not identify Warner's co-conspirators by name in the money laundering scheme but it cited “a Trinidadian businessman whose identity is known to the Grand Jury” and a large local “supermarket chain” and “real estate and investment company, “controlled by the unnamed businessman.

Carl Mack, owner and director of the JTA Group and a director of One Caribbean Media (OCM), the holding company for the CCN Group and owner of the Trinidad Express Newspapers, said all of the foreign currency purchases from Warner were done by his accountant, Rampersad, who also happened to be Warner's accountant-in-chief.

Rishi-Nirvan Balroop, financial controller of ISL, in a two-paragraph statement on the USD currency trades, said: “ISL purchased US dollars during a period in which the currency was extremely difficult to obtain to facilitate our regular business transactions. We dealt only with the accounting and consultancy firm, Kenny Rampersad & Co, which facilitated these transactions.

“At no point was ISL ever in a position to investigate or suspect the source of these funds and we discharged our responsibilities in accordance with industry norms and standards,” said Balroop, adding that ISL found Rampersad from the “well-established accounting and consultancy firms known in the country”.

Both men said they never dealt with Warner.

According to the US-laid indictment, the world governing body for football, FIFA, made three wire transfers in as many months in 2008 to three Warner controlled Republic Bank accounts totalling US$10 million as a kickback for his 2004 vote for South Africa to host the 2010 World Cup.

US Department of Justice documents, which quoted Warner's long time partner in graft, Chuck Blazer, detailed the bribe payment made by the South African Football Association (SAFA) through FIFA's Zurich account after the African nation encountered difficulty in making the payment directly to Warner.

A leaked letter from the SAFA to FIFA's general secretary, Jerome Valcke, twice specified that FIFA give Warner control of diverted SAFA funds to a Warner creation called the “African Diaspora Legacy Programme”.

US sources, however, told the Sunday Express that very little of the US$10 million bribe money went towards the development of football in the Caribbean.

More than half of the corrupt payment was cleaned through a series of structured TTD repayments to a plethora of Warner-controlled bank accounts, including CONCACAF, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF), C.O.N.C.A.C.A.F. Centre of Excellence, a parallel account which this newspaper wrote about last year, The Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence and two of his private companies – CCAM and Co Ltd and Renraw Investments Ltd.

On this bribe transaction alone, over US$4.8 million worth of US bank drafts were sold to the JTA group and US$300K to ISL, according to a US source familiar with the case.

The structured TTD repayment was said to have been made through a bundle of smaller payments to myriad Warner-controlled bank accounts.

USD bank drafts were also made to Super Industrial Services Ltd (SIS). Two payments, totalling US$236K were made to the Krishna Lalla-associated company. Lalla was not immediately available for comment yesterday.

Ironically, in a dispute that would later reach the courts, Warner borrowed TT$60 million from Lalla in 2007 for the purported financing of the UNC’s election campaign in the November poll of that year.

Lalla, in a 2013 interview with the Sunday Express, claimed to have provided cash and cheque payments totalling $60 million over several months to Warner who assured that the money would be repaid from a US$10 million cheque payment he was expecting from FIFA which we now know to be the kickback on the 2010 World Cup.

More than US$2 million of that bribe money went to clear credit card balances for an AA Advantage master card and an International Visa Platinum card.

Over US$600K went to service personal loans, another US$59,415. was channelled to a private account in the name of Jamad Ltd, a key Warner-owned company which we reported in a special Sunday Express series, conducted cash raids on all of the Warner controlled bank accounts for the various football bodies he was associated with.

The contentious US$10 million payment is revealed in the May 27 indictment of 14 people, including Warner, by the US Department of Justice. It also detailed the US$750K share of bribe money Warner paid to his former CONCACAF general secretary Blazer, who spilled the beans to US investigators after he was busted on tax evasion charges. Blazer was promised US$1 million in hush money but three years and as many payments later, Warner short-changed him of US$250K.

On Wednesday, South African Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula denied that the African nation paid Warner a bribe to secure his vote for the 2010 World Cup but FIFA, in a news statement, said its payment to Warner was “at the request of the South African government and in agreement with the SAFA” to finance Warner’s Diaspora Legacy Programme.

The FIFA wire transfers were paid into a Republic Bank account in the name of CFU and into two separate Warner controlled CONCACAF accounts, also at Republic Bank, according to sources.

Payment one, in the amount of US$616K, was paid from FIFA’s UBS Zurich account to the CFU Republic bank account on January 4, 2008.

The second payment of US$1.6 million went to the Republic Bank CONCACAF account which received the disguised FFA (Football Federation Australia) payment of US$462,200 in September 2010.

Frank Lowy, chairman of the FFA, last week denied that the payment was a bribe but he is yet to explain why the FFA used Travelex as a front for the payment to Warner.

As reported last Sunday, the FFA payment was made rather circuitously through Travelex Global Business Payments, an international money transfer service based in the United Kingdom.

No explanation was forthcoming from Lowy on why the FFA’s name is not listed as the source of funds in the payment cheque made out to Warner.

The US$1.6 million wire transfer payment to the USD account at Republic Bank was made on February 1, 2008.

The last of the three wire transfers was made on March 10, 2008 to another Warner-controlled CONCACAF account at Republic Bank and was for the amount of US$7,784,000.

Interestingly, the USD account in the name of CONCACAF lists as its signatories – Warner, his personal accountant Kenny Rampersad and his secretary of long standing Patricia Modeste.

Rampersad was identified in a Warner series of articles published in this newspaper as the architect of off-balance sheet transactions and misleading financial disclosures related to the local football federation, LOC Germany 2006 Ltd, CONCACAF, CFU and the Centre of Excellence. In the long-fought court battle with the Soca Warriors for bonus payments derived from the 2006 World Cup, TTFF’s former top officials, Oliver Camps and Richard Groden, claimed to have knowledge of only three bank accounts for the national football federation. Warner’s frontmen claimed to have little knowledge about much of anything relating to the financial affairs of the football federation, including who pocketed the more than TT$100 million in missing sponsorship money.

The two repeatedly told the court that Warner was the man in charge.

The two, in affidavits given to a Case Management Conference (CMC) said the national football federation’s former special adviser managed the accounts and at all material times had control and possession of the federation’s financial records and information.

Warner was also the authorised signatory to TTFF’s bank accounts and had exclusive control of the agent company, LOC Germany, which was used as a conduit to move tens of millions of dollars in sponsorship money from the federation’s bank accounts to Warner and his private companies.

The agent company was a Warner/ Rampersad creation.