Tag: Jack Warner
Caribbean league dream wrecked by Webb corruption
(CNS): Shaka Hislop, the former FA Premier League goalkeeper, told attendees at a fraud prevention conference in the Cayman Islands last week that a Caribbean Premier League, attracting major international stars, could have been formed in the region if its reputation hadn’t been so badly damaged by corrupt officials such as disgraced Cayman football supremo Jeffrey Webb. His fraud […]
Watson denies helping Webb launder cash
(CNS): Canover Watson accepted under cross-examination in the CarePay corruption trial that he helped Jeffrey Webb, his friend and business partner, to create false documents to send to a US bank but denied helping him to launder money. Going through more documents recovered from Watson’s computers and flash drives, prosecutor Patrick Moran pressed him repeatedly to reveal […]
Bank boss says Webb borrowed $240k for sports firm
(CNS): Former CIFA president, Jeffrey Webb, borrowed cash from Fidelity Bank on behalf of a sports firm he owned with Jack Warner, his predecessor at CONCACAF, with the help of Canover Watson, the court heard this week. Brett Hill, Fidelity’s chief executive, gave evidence in Watson’s trial that officials at the bank approved a loan in 2011 […]
Swiss FIFA probe nets Blatter as scandal widens
(CNS): Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, is now under criminal investigation in Switzerland. The football boss was questioned by police in Zürich Friday in connection with a deal with the Caribbean Football Union when Jack Warner was president and a payment to Michel Platini, President of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The Swiss […]
Swiss to extradite Esquivel, Trinidad agrees to give up Warner
(CNS): Jack Warner and Rafael Esquivel are both now facing extradition to the United States in the massive FiFA bribery and corruption investigation after both the Trinidad and Swiss authorities agreed to the American request. Warner (72), who was Jeffrey Webb’s predecessor as CONCACAF president, is accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes in the […]
