Jack Warner's long list of crimes also allegedly includes diverting $750,000 in funds raised to assist victims of the deadly earthquake that killed over 100,000 people.
A new report has reignited past claims that former FIFA vice president Jack Warner of Trinidad misappropriated Haiti earthquake relief funds in 2010, directing the money to his own accounts for his "personal use."
The BBC cites U.S. government documents that appear to indicate American prosecutors have studied transactions in which $750,000 from FIFA and the Korean Football Association made its way into accounts controlled by Warner, who is a central figure in the criminal probe based in the Eastern District of New York.
The atrocious accusations, first aired in 2012, were documented in a 144-page report from April 2013 commissioned by CONCACAF, the regional soccer federation that Warner led from 1990 to 2011, when he was ousted amid a bribery scheme.
"In February 2012, the TTFF (Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation) alleged that Warner misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars of funds donated to Haiti by FIFA and the Korea Football Association following the 2010 earthquake," said the report.
The BBC says it has seen documents in which U.S. investigators assert that evidence gathered in the four-year probe by the FBI and IRS indicates Warner received the funds in the TTFF account and that "at Warner's direction" they were deposited in his personal accounts.
It is just one of the crimes Warner is accused of perpetrating in his long reign as one of international soccer's most powerful power brokers. He has denied all wrongdoing, and has promised publicly to bring an "avalanche" of secrets down on FIFA and Sepp Blatter, the organization's president from 1998 until last Tuesday, when he announced his intention to resign. Warner has also threatened to implicate his own government, which holds the power over his extradition to the U.S.
Warner, along with 13 other FIFA representatives and sports marketing executives, is charged with wire fraud, money laundering and racketeering. Two of Warner's sons, Daryll and Daryan, pleaded guilty to felonies in Brooklyn federal court last year, and are cooperating in hope of a reduced sentence.
Warner's power within FIFA -- and, apparently, his extraordinary wealth -- came from his presidency of CONCACAF, the Caribbean and North American soccer federation where his second-in-command was American Chuck Blazer, who secretly pleaded guilty in 2013 and cooperated extensively with American law enforcement. Blazer's cooperation and the U.S. investigation out of the Eastern District was first reported by the Daily News in November of last year.
The dizzying web of accounts Warner and Blazer used to send, receive, and hide their millions have been well-mapped by the FBI and IRS, which had access to Blazer's first-hand knowledge of corruption within FIFA's top ranks. They include offshore accounts in places like the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. An associate of Blazer's described to the Daily News how Blazer would regularly return from trips abroad with envelopes of cash.
A 2012 application for an arrest warrant for Daryan and Daryll Warner details their banking activity over 27 pages in which they appear to have flown from city to city and moved from bank to bank depositing sums of cash under $10,000 in order to evade bank transaction reporting requirements.
The application, which the IRS filed under seal, calls the activities of Warner's sons "a pattern of illegal activity involving more than $100,000 in a 12-month period." Through flight records and bank receipts, the document describes Daryan and Daryll visiting bank branches in Queens, Manhattan, Miami, and Las Vegas, depositing sums of approximately $9,900. In one seven-month span, the Warner boys made cash deposits totaling more than $600,000 in U.S. dollars, Russian rubles, Euros, and British pounds.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/s...0k-haiti-relief-fund-report-article-1.2252380
. Don't want to see him return to that other scumbag Berlusconi though
