FIFA has confirmed that Jack Warner has been hit
with a lifetime ban from football related activities following an investigation
into the bidding process of the 2018 and 2022 world cups.
Warner who spent 21 years at the head of concacaf,
was one of the senior football officials indicted by an FBI investigation into
corruption back in May.
Jack Warner is facing extradition to the United
States to answer criminal charges including fraud, racketeering and money
laundering.
“The decision was taken on the basis of investigations
carried out by the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee following its
report on the inquiry into the 2018/2022 Fifa World Cup bidding process,”
Fifa’s statement reads.
“Mr 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.”
The world football governing body’s Ethics Committee
deemed the former Fifa Vice-president and Executive Committee member guilty of
breaching the organisation’s Code of Ethics on multiple occasions.
“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,” the
Fifa statement explains.
“He was found guilty of violations of art. 13
(General rules of conduct), art. 15 (Loyalty), art. 18 (Duty of disclosure,
cooperation and reporting), art. 19 (Conflicts of interest), art. 20 (Offering
and accepting gifts and other benefits) and art. 41 (Obligation of the parties
to collaborate) of the Fifa Code of Ethics.
“The ban is effective from 25 September 2015, the
date on which the present decision was notified.”
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