FOUR YEARS AFTER retiring, disgraced former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has been banned from all football-related activities for life.
The governing body’s ethics committee have this morning released the findings of an investigation into Warner’s involvement in the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
In a statement, Fifa said Warner was ”found to have committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at Fifa and Concacaf.
“In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making schemes.”
Warner, who was one of a number of Fifa officials arrested earlier this year amid allegations of corruption, is also facing criminal charges in the United States over an alleged £100 million fraud.
The 72-year-old’s ban covers all football activity at both a national and international level and is effective from 25 September.
Warner is also fighting extradition from his homeland in Trinidad and Tobago to the United States to face 12 charges of wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering related to the ongoing Fifa corruption scandal.
He faces a hearing in his homeland in December.
He is accused, amongst other things, of buying the television rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cup tournaments from Fifa president Sepp Blatter for grossly deflated sums.
With additional reporting from AFP.
