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Bribery probe to press ahead

by JP Lonergan , 11 June 2011

The agency hired to investigate claims of bribery by senior Fifa officials will meet their remaining Caribbean Football Union witnesses in the Bahamas.


The probe had been held up after 18 of the 25 members of the CFU refused to meet the investigators in Miami. However, the change of venue has seen them recede in their rejection and the interviews will go ahead.

The investigation is geared at garnering the truth after claims that Fifa’s Jack Warner and Mohamed Bin Hammam paid or offered bribes of $40,000 US dollars to each association in the CFU.

The duo are currently suspended pending a result of the probe, with Bin Hammam having pulled out of the recent Fifa presidential election, which saw Sepp Blatter reappointed unopposed.

With Warner banned, Captain Horace Burrell of Jamaica is the CFU acting president and he said ahead of the remaining interviews: "In light of the attempts to address the challenges facing the Caribbean Football Union; as well as to bring closure to the ethics committee proceedings, members of the CFU will fully co-operate with any investigation being conducted on behalf of the Fifa ethics committee.

"We have received notice that the requested interviews will now be conducted in the Bahamas as opposed to the United States of America.

"This event has dragged on for too long, many have suffered and many will continue to suffer. And so the union is unified in its position that in the interest of this game, we have agreed to attend the interviews at dates convenient to our respective members."

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