Warner defends himself

Former FIFA vice president Austin Jack Warner is questioning the authenticity of international media reports that the FIFA Ethics Committee had implicated him in a bribery scandal.



Warner and former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam were suspended amid allegations that they had offered £40,000 to national associations of the Caribbean Football Union in return for their votes in the FIFA presidential election on June 1.



Warner is dismissing reports that the ethics committee has released its report into its investigation regarding the case.



He says he has been reliably informed that the purported document was neither released nor circulated by FIFA.



Warner says as far as he knows the purported FIFA Ethics Committee report which is being circulated is merely a summary of the considerations on which the FIFA Ethics Committee had decided on provisional suspensions.



Several groups have been calling for Warner’s resignation including the main opposition People’s National Movement.