Opposition wants police to probe FIFA bribery allegation

Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds has called for Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs to launch an investigation to determine whether Trinidad and Tobago was used as a venue for the alleged payment of bribes to members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).



Hinds told the Senate that the authorities, including the customs department, must also investigate whether any person declared more than the stipulated amount of foreign currency which can be brought into the country.



Football’s world governing body, FIFA, on Sunday pledged to investigate bribery allegations against its vice president, Austin Jack Warner, former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam and two CFU officials.



Warner and Bin Hammam have been accused of offering US$40,000 to national associations of the CFU at a meeting on May 10 and 11 in Trinidad in return for their votes in the FIFA presidential election.