Former FIFA-VICE president Jack Warner will not be confronted with extradition to the US to see bribery applications as part of a radical, decades of corruption scandal that held part of the top of the football world, a court in Warner’s home country Trinidad and Tobago ruled on Tuesday.
Warner was accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribes to vote for Russia to organize the 2018 World Cup. While accusations of corruption against him date from the 1980s, he was exiled in 2015 from sport for life.
However, he will probably run free, with the top judge of the Caribbean Nation on Tuesday that it would not meet the American extradition request. He is not confronted with charges at home and has maintained his innocence.
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The US Department of Justice argued that Warner had an enormous influence as a power maker for former FIFA chef Sepp Blatter in his role as a vice -president and as head of the Concacaf, who organizes football in North and Central -America and the Caribbean.
Warner was part of «two generations of football officials» who abused their functions for personal gain, the doj claimed. Blatter was cleaned up earlier this year from corruption costs in Switzerland.
Justice Karen Reid argued in an oral hearing that the Trump government had not respected the appropriate process and the rule of law for non-citizens in the US and as such she would not convey Warner.
The US Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Two van Warner’s sons, Daryll and Daryan, guilty of their role in the regulation in the US in 2013. They worked together with the DOJ probe and a federal court ruled earlier this year that they would not get extra prison time.
Published on September 24, 2025
