Further evidence ... Floating FIFA Executive Jack Warner is involved again source: Shirley Bahadur/AP
FIFA had "compelling" evidence that Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner conspired to voters in the organisation of presidential election bribe before it suspended them world soccer governing body.
FIFA Ethics Committee concluded that the allegations bin Hammam offered $ US40, 000 ($ A38, 000) cash payments to Caribbean officials ' first sight an act of bribery. "
A report to Warner case, seen by the Associated Press, said the former-FIFA vice-president was an accessory to bribery "self-serving statements" offered during a hearing last month.
The 17-page document was last week sent to Warner, a 28-year veteran of FIFA'S ruling Executive Committee that the North, Central American and Caribbean regional authority since 1990 led.
Days later, Minister of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago stop his football positions while insisting that he would have been "fully acquitted by any objective arbitrator."
The damning language in the ethics panel report stands out in contrast with the official stance of FIFA on Warner research, which was launched on Monday fall.
FIFA said it had no longer a legal authority to pursue Warner and that he held "the presumption of innocence."
FIFA refused comment on Wednesday on the leaked report, which was first revealed by Britain's Press Association.
Warner statement a claim that the document was distributed by "pathologically mendacious" people within FIFA which would "stop no detail to destroy my legacy."
"Let me repeat for those with hidden agendas; I, Jack Warner, do not participate in the distribution of a cash gifts to my members, "said the former Caribbean Football Union leader.
Insists that Warner Attorney in Trinidad were not answered.
Bin Hammam and Warner were summoned to appear before FIFA Ethics Committee on 29 may, and has been temporarily suspended on the basis of a dossier of evidence concerning the bin Hammam campaign visit to members of the CFU in a hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Hours before the hearing, bin Hammam withdrew from the election is scheduled for four days later against the President of FIFA Sepp Blatter.
Blatter, who attended Wednesday night Gold Cup semi-finals in Houston, deflected questions about the ethics report to FIFA spokesman Nicolas Maingot.
Blatter "was just here to watch the games" and would not comment, Maingot told The Associated Press.
The Ethics Panel, headed by Namibian right Petrus Damaseb, studied testimonies of officials who represent four Caribbean federations who allegedly were offered Brown envelopes stuffed with $ 100 notes after hearing bin Hammam election pitch on 10 May.
"It seems quite compelling to consider that the actions of Mr bin Hammam first face an act of bribery, or at least an attempt to commit bribery," the report said.
The Panel found "comprehensive, compelling and overwhelming evidence" that Warner arranged the meeting specifically to corruption.
It was "impossible" to think that Warner was unaware of the payments and their intention to influence how CFU members voted.
"So, the accused (Warner) would at least be regarded as an accessory to the aforementioned violations," the report said.
Officials of the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands provided witness statements that were "coherent, credible and detailed," the Panel decided.
The whistleblowers said Warner told deputies that "the gift of cash had been provided by Mr bin Hammam.
"The accused further stated that he Mr bin Hammam to the money equivalent of each gift that he was planning to bring to the attorneys had advised," the report said.
Warner, meanwhile, "failed to FIFA Ethics Committee provide a plausible explanation" to refute the allegations.
The Panel justified the suspensions, pending a full investigation, because officials suspected of bribery "irreparable damage to the FIFA" would cause if they remained within the organization.
Warner, however, from the range of its judicial authorities, FIFA seeks to interview him as a witness in the ongoing probes in bin Hammam and two CFU workers alleged to have handed the payments. Deny all abuses and expectation facing Ethics Panel again next month.
Bin Hammam, the President of the Asian Football Confederation, has also appealed his provisional prohibition and is awaiting a separate ruling by FIFA.
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