Jack Warner vows not to surrender extradition struggle

A defiant Austin ‘Jack’ Warner mentioned Thursday he’ll proceed to struggle his extradition to america to reply corruption fees, even after London’s Privy Council dominated that the extradition proceedings will not be illegal.

The previous soccer administrator, businessman and politician additionally defended the choice by soccer’s world governing physique FIFA, of which he’s a former vice-president, to provide desire to South Africa, Russia and Qatar to host World Cup Finals. The award of the 2018 World Cup Closing to Russia was among the many points on the middle of corruption allegations towards the 79-year-old Warner who’s going through 12 fees of wire fraud, racketeering and cash laundering.

The Privy Council, Trinidad and Tobago’s highest court docket of enchantment, dismissed Warner’s attorneys’ competition that the extradition proceedings within the Justice of the Peace’s court docket have been illegal, thus paving the best way for the matter to renew.

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“I proceed to believe in my group led by Fyard Hosein senior counsel, and I’ve suggested them to proceed to press my case on the three remaining phases of those proceedings,” Warner mentioned in a publish on his Fb web page on Thursday morning, following the Privy Council ruling.

“I’ve lived on this nation for practically eighty years, and I’m assured that I’ll proceed to obtain the love, affection, and respect that folks from all walks of life have all the time prolonged to me. I’m sure I’ll prevail in the long run.”

Warner, who mentioned he had conferred together with his attorneys earlier than issuing the assertion, additionally steered that the Trinidad and Tobago courts shouldn’t have been concerned on this matter.

He had challenged the authority to proceed (ATP) granted by the lawyer basic in September 2015 which had given the court docket the authority to start extradition proceedings.

“I be aware that a number of European nations, together with France and Switzerland, a number of Latin American nations, together with Brazil, and several other African and Center Japanese nations have refused to extradite their residents. Trinidad and Tobago is due to this fact an outlier,” Warner mentioned.