Ex-FIFA executive to be to extradited

Corruption accused Jack Warner was told in court on Monday that Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi has signed the documents that would allow the extradition case against him to proceed.

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner will learn Friday whether he is to be extradited to the United States to face charges linked to a corruption scandal sweeping football’s world governing body.

Warner has denied allegations of accepting millions of dollars in bribes and has been fighting the extradition attempt.

Revelations emerged in June about the so-called $10 million “South Africa Diaspora Fund” paid from the organizing committee of the 2010 World Cup to CONCACAF, which Warner was to oversee personally.

Warner was the former head for the Caribbean and North and Central American soccer and was considered a powerful and influential figure who could support a country’s bid to host a World Cup event. “It is important to us for you to make an order of discharge, ” Hosein said.

Presiding over the proceedings was deputy Chief Magistrate Mark Wellington in the Eighth Court who held in the absence of Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers Caesar.

However, Warner’s attorneys are challenging the decision, stating that Al-Rawi missed the September 16 date for signing off on the documents, and as a result, Warner should be discharged.

The extradition of ex-Fifa Vice-President, Eugenio Figueredo, to the U.S. , was approved last week by Switzerland.

At the moment, only former Federation Internationale de Football Association vice-president Jeffrey Webb from the Cayman Island has agreed to be extradited to the US.