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Mr Warner in local currency. Jack Warner: The U.S. charge sheet Accused of racketeering, wire fraud, money-laundering, bribery. rom the early 1990s, he allegedly “began to leverage his influence and exploit his official positions for personal gain”. Allegedly accepted a $10M bribe from South African officials in return for voting to award them the 2010 World Cup Allegedly bribed officials with envelopes each containing $40 000 in cash; when one demurred, he allegedly said: “There are some people here who think they are more pious than thou. If you’re pious, open a church, friends. Our business is our business.” The BBC gave details of its investigation to Brent Sancho, Trinidad and Tobago’s sports minister and a former footballer. He said: “He (Mr Warner) must face justice, he must answer all of these questions. Justice has to be served. “He will have to account, with this investigation, he will have to answer for his actions.” The documents also show $360 000 of the FIFA money was withdrawn by people connected to Mr Warner. Nearly $1.6M was used to pay the former FIFA vice-president’s credit cards and personal loans. The documents show the largest personal loan Mr Warner provided for himself was $410 000. The largest credit card payment was $87 000. Mr Sancho says he is now angry and disappointed. “I’m devastated because a lot of that money should have been back in football, back in the development of children playing the sport. “It is a travesty. Mr Warner should answer the questions,” he added. ‘THE GLOVES ARE OFF’ Jack Warner is one of 14 people charged by U.S. prosecutors over alleged corruption at FIFA. The U.S. Justice Department alleges the 14 accepted bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150M (£97M) over a 24-year period. Mr Warner denies all charges of corruption.
GUYANA CHRONICLE Monday June 8, 2015
Russia, Qatar could lose World Cups - FIFA compliance head ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) - Russia and Qatar could be stripped of their World Cup hosting rights if evidence emerges of bribery in the bidding process, Domenico Scala, the independent chairman of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee, told a Swiss newspaper. The FBI’s investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA includes scrutiny of how football’s governing body awarded World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar, a U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters this week. “If evidence should emerge that the awards to Qatar and Russia only came about thanks to bought votes, then the awards could be invalidated,” Scala told SonntagsZeitung in an interview published yesterday. “This evidence has not yet been brought forth.” Russia and Qatar have denied wrongdoing in the conduct of their bids for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, which were not the subject of charges announced by U.S. prosecutors last week against FIFA officials. Scala made similar comments in 2013 but events over the last two weeks, which included a dawn police raid in Zurich and the arrests of several FIFA officials on U.S. charges, have added urgency to his remarks. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said he supported Qatar hosting the 2022 tournament but said Britain would work with another country if FIFA re-opened the bidding process. “We would offer our support to any country that has been chosen to host the World Cup,” Hammond told BBC World Service radio, saying the final decision would be for FIFA to make. He ruled out any British bid to host the 2022 competition if Qatar was stripped of hosting rights. Sepp Blatter unexpectedly announced on Tuesday he was resigning, just four days after securing a fifth term as FIFA president and shortly before it emerged that he too was under investigation by U.S. law enforcement. In a separate interview with Swiss paper Sonntags Blick, Scala floated the idea of term limits for the FIFA presidency. “If a FIFA president does two or three cycles that is enough,” Scala was quoted as saying.
New softball competition launched PETAMA Enterprise of 16 Delph Street, Campbellville and Motor Trend Auto Sales, Spares & Repairs of Old Public Road, Enmore are the newest sponsors of the next Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association organised softball tournament. This Tournament will start June 28, 2015. Like all GFSCA tournaments it will be played in 3 Categories - Male/Female Open, and Male Masters. To qualify for the Male Masters, players must be born in 1970 or before. However, all Masters Teams can include a maximum of 4 players born 1971 and 1972 in their squad of 15 members. Essequibo Zones will be handled by Khalid Baksh, Tel #: 618-1905, and Berbice and Demerara Zones will be handled by GFSCA Chief Organiser Wayne Jones, Tel#: 6501790 and 685-6908. Prizes for the Male Open and Male Masters are: Winners $100,000 + Trophy, Runner-Up $25,000 + Trophy. For Females, Winner receive $50,000 + Trophy and Runner-Up $20,000 +
GFF unveils new Golden Jaguars kit THE Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday unveiled their new kit ahead of their senior National Men’s Football team (Golden Jaguars) 2018 World Cup Qualifier against St Vincent and the Grenadines on June 10 and 14. According to the GFF’s marketing and communication director Rawle Toney, the Federation is more than pleased to partner with Admiral Sportswear to be its official uniform and kit provider for the next four years. “Admiral is a highly respected international brand and one which the GFF is proud to be associated with and to have our entire national and league teams outfitted in,” Toney said, while speaking to the media yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium where the simple but significant event was held. Admiral, the second-largest football brand supplying professional teams in the U.S. and Canada, in addition to supplying competitive and recreational teams will outfit our National sides with a unique kit for their 2016 Olympic qualifiers and 2018 World Cup qualifier. The Golden Jaguars will debut their new Admiral kit in their 2018 World Cup qualifier on June 10 against St Vincent. Both the Men’s and Women’s U-23 teams will also be wearing Admiral during the CFU 2016 Olympic qualifiers at the end of June and August respectively. “The deal was done in such a strategic way, that the GFF could benefit. Admiral will sell the products online and the Federation gets a percentage from that sale. But also, the GFF already has fan wear and those are being sold for $2 000 and the player’s replica will cost $6 000. All items are sold only at the GFF’s head office in Campbellville,” Toney said. Admiral itself is a legendary brand, being worn by some of the biggest names in the sporting world. The England National Team, Manchester United, New York Cosmos and most recently the West Indies Cricket team are just some of the teams that once donned Admiral. In fact, Admiral has supplied most of the current English Premier League (EPL) teams in addition to being the largest brand in the original North American Soccer League (NASL). Today Admiral is a major player in the North American and international markets.
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Organiser Wayne Jones, centre, with Jailall Deodass right, Petama left, along with other members of the GFSCA Trophy. Player of the Series in all categories will receive a Trophy + $10,000. Player of the Match in Final will receive a Trophy + $5,000. The finals of this softball competition will be played on Sunday October 11th, 2015. Balls to be used by Males are the white GFSCA/Trophy Stall balls. Females will use the yellow Floodlight Balls. The Petama Enterprise/ Motor Trend softball competition serves as the perfect
build-up for the fifth GFSCA International Softball Tournament, “ Guyana Softball Cup 5” which will be held on October 30th, 31st& 1st November. Entrance fees for The Petama Enterprise / Motor Trend Tournament is $15,000 for the Male Categories, while Females are free. Petama Enterprise is a distributor for KYB Shocks, NPW Water Pump, Toyo Bearing, FIC Clutch & Break Product. Petama En-
terprise Managing Director Petamber Maharaj and Motor Trend Managing Director Jailall Deodass are very enthusiastic about sponsoring this Tournament. This GFSCA managed competition is also co-sponsored by Trophy Stall, Ariel Enterprise, Mikes Pharmacy, Romeo Oil Seal, Rohan Auto Spares, Ramchand Auto Spares, and Gainmart producers of Powerline Battery Acid &Powerline Battery Water.
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