Spin Port, Trinidad- Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner He won a court battle that lasted for a decade on Tuesday against its delivery to the United States to confront corruption charges in a bribery scandal that includes the International Governing Authority.
Trinidad and Tobago The Supreme Court has always remained delivery against Warner, who faces bribery and bribery in the United States.
Warner was one of 14 people named after an indictment from 47 years by the American authorities in May 2015. He has been fighting delivery since then.
His battle went to the maximum limit of the Queen Special Judicial Committee in London, which works as the highest court in Trinidad and Tobago. In November 2022, the London Court rejected Warner’s appeal against delivery, which actually sent the road to be sent to the United States
However, on September 12, Warner’s defense lawyer has argued that there is no official delivery agreement between Trinidad, Tobago and the United States, lawyers said that such an agreement is required to hand over Warner.
The state lawyer, who recently assumed the case, did not oppose the argument.
On Tuesday, Judge Karen Reed ruled that delivery procedures were defective, due to the lack of an official delivery agreement.
After the verdict, Warner told the Associated Press that he felt justified and that justice had been offered.
Warner said: “I could never restore the lost reputation, which happened to me,” Warner said. “My life can start now again, but it is 10 years later.”
Warner faced many allegations of corruption caused by his time in FIFA. In 2020, an indictment for the US Department of Justice was accused of receiving $ 5 million of bribery payments to vote for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup, a offer that he won.
Warner was forced out of FIFA in 2011 due to the bribery scandal, but he denied committing any violations. He also previously worked as a government minister and a member of Parliament in Trinidad and Tobago.
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