Jack Warner blasts US, FIFA suspect turns self in

Fallen FIFA executive Jack Warner has said that US authorities would be unable to give him a fair trial, while an Argentinian businessman indicted in the soccer body's sprawling corruption scandal handed himself over to Italian police.
Warner, a former schoolteacher and Trinidadian ex-minister of national security at the heart of the criminal case engulfing football's world body, is the subject of a US request to have him extradited from Trinidad.
The 72-year-old said the United States is not the "appropriate jurisdiction" to handle the matter "fairly" and claimed America is trying to exact revenge because it tried but failed to lobby FIFA to host the 2022 World Cup.

"One must be extremely careful to question whether the United States can be fair in taking action against officials of an international body whom it feels has done it wrong," Warner wrote in an editorial in the weekly Sunshine newspaper, which he owns.
Currently, US prosecutors accuse 14 people of taking part in a sweeping kickbacks scheme going back 20 years involving a total of USD 150 million in bribes.
The revelations have thrown the soccer world into turmoil and led to the resignation of long-serving FIFA president Sepp Blatter last week, just four days after his re-election to a fifth consecutive term.

Warner called the United States two-faced, since he and Blatter had once been welcomed to the White House by President Barack Obama.

"Was the president of the United States seeking a strong lobby from a FIFA vice president or was he 'bribing' a FIFA official with a visit and a meal to the White House? I think not," Warner said.
"In each case, the answer is no, but it just goes to show how selective this 'bribe' issue can be," he added.
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Among those indicted is Argentine sports marketing executive Alejandro Burzaco. He turned himself in to police in Italy after initially fleeing authorities.