Disgraced former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has threatened to release a “tsunami” of corruption allegations against FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
Warner said he will make the allegations after former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam completes his appeal to the Court of Arbitration of Sport against a life ban forbribery. The verdict to his appeal is not expected for several months.
“I have promised in the past a tsunami that would hit the FIFA, and indeed, it will come,” Warner, amember of FIFA’s ruling executive committee for 28 years, wrote in a letter to a newspaper in his native Trinidad.
In a 1,300-word letter published by the Trinidad Guardian Warnerstated that he and bin Hammam helped Blatter win “bitter” and “brutal” elections in 1998 and 2002. Warner said his revelations would make FIFA’s sponsors — which includeAdidas, Coca-Cola, Sony and Visa — “cringe with painful surprise.”