Jack Warner loses extradition problem at Privy Council

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,– Former vice-president of soccer’s world governing physique FIFA, Austin ‘Jack’ Warner on Thursday misplaced his struggle, on the Privy Council, towards extradition to america on corruption prices.

The court docket in London, Trinidad and Tobago’s highest attraction court docket, dismissed Warner’s attorneys’ rivalry that the extradition proceedings had been illegal. This paves the best way for the proceedings within the twin-island republic’s Justice of the Peace court docket to renew.

Warner had challenged the process of the extradition proceedings – following the US request, on July 24, 2015, for him to face prices of wire fraud, racketeering and cash laundering – in addition to the authority to proceed (ATP) granted by the Lawyer Normal in September that yr which gave the court docket the authority to start the proceedings.

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Warner, who additionally served as CONCACAF president, was indicted in Could 2015. US prosecutors allege that from way back to 1990, he leveraged his affect and exploited his official positions for private acquire.

Amongst different issues, the 79-year-old former soccer administrator is accused of receiving $5 million in bribes – despatched through greater than two dozen separate wire transfers, from 10 completely different shell firms, to a Caribbean Soccer Union account he managed at Republic Financial institution in Trinidad and Tobago – to vote for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup.

Jack Warner was certainly one of 14 defendants charged in reference to the 24-year scheme that prosecutors alleged was designed to “enrich themselves via the corruption of worldwide soccer”.

In 2015, FIFA banned him from all soccer-related actions for all times.

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