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<SPAN style="COLOR: red"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt">FIFA chief's World Cup ticket scam.
By: Daily Mail.</SPAN></SPAN>
One of FIFA’s most senior figures secretly set up deals to sell thousands of World Cup tickets worth millions of pounds — including 900 destined for England fans — on the black market, Sportsmail can reveal.
Vice-president Jack Warner flagrantly defied FIFA’s rules, but confidential auditors’ reports exposing his activities before and during the tournament have been suppressed.
Sportsmail has acquired the confidential reports produced for FIFA by auditors Ernst & Young revealing how Warner was allowed to amass a fortune trading in tickets for Germany 2006.
One report estimated he and son Daryan cleared a profit of at least £500,000 on 5,400 tickets for England, Mexico and Japan matches The lenient treatment of Warner — who controls 35 crucial votes that keep FIFA president Sepp Blatter in power — contrasts starkly with the fate of fellow executive committee member Ismail Bhamjee in June.
Caught selling a dozen World Cup tickets to English fans, Bhamjee was instantly expelled.
Kevin Miles, international co-ordinator for the Football Supporters’ Federation, said: ‘The black market in tickets was the big scandal at this World Cup. There is growing evidence that this corruption goes to the heart of FIFA.
‘Every ticket on the black market is a ticket that has been initially supplied by FIFA to someoneONE of FIFA’s most senior figures secretly set up deals to sell thousands of World Cup tickets worth millions of pounds — including 900 destined for England fans — on the black market, Sportsmail can reveal.
Vice-president Jack Warner flagrantly defied FIFA’s rules, but confidential auditors’ reports exposing his activities before and during the tournament have been suppressed.
Sportsmail has acquired the confidential reports produced for FIFA by auditors Ernst & Young revealing how Warner was allowed to amass a fortune trading in tickets for Germany 2006.
One report estimated he and son Daryan cleared a profit of at least £500,000 on 5,400 tickets for England, Mexico and Japan matches.
The lenient treatment of Warner — who controls 35 crucial votes that keep FIFA president Sepp Blatter in power — contrasts starkly with the fate of fellow executive committee member Ismail Bhamjee in June.
Caught selling a dozen World Cup tickets to English fans, Bhamjee was instantly expelled.
Kevin Miles, international co-ordinator for the Football Supporters’ Federation, said: ‘The black market in tickets was the big scandal at this World Cup. There is growing evidence that this corruption goes to the heart of FIFA.
‘Every ticket on the black market is a ticket that has been initially supplied by FIFA to someone more interested in making money than watching football. This parasitic profiteering at the expense of genuine fans has got to stop.’
The Warners began operations in June 2005, using their private Simpaul travel company in Trinidad to strike secret deals to sell thousands of packages of rooms and tickets to agents around the world.
FIFA turned a blind eye but were forced to act when the Trinidad media revealed last December that Warner charged huge mark-ups on Simpaul ticket-and-room packages.
FIFA’s ethics committee criticised Warner’s ticket deals, concluding he had abused his position to obtain personal benefits and failed to declare his business interests.
But in March the executive committee absolved him after he claimed he had severed connections with Simpaul.
In fact, Daryan Warner continued as managing director of Simpaul and Jack Warner’s personal assistant Patricia Modeste, who gave her address as Warner’s office in Port of Spain, remained company secretary.
Through Simpaul, the Warners secretly sold ‘England Packages’ to David Gambier of the Abingdon-based Sports World Group, guaran
By: Daily Mail.</SPAN></SPAN>
One of FIFA’s most senior figures secretly set up deals to sell thousands of World Cup tickets worth millions of pounds — including 900 destined for England fans — on the black market, Sportsmail can reveal.
Vice-president Jack Warner flagrantly defied FIFA’s rules, but confidential auditors’ reports exposing his activities before and during the tournament have been suppressed.
Sportsmail has acquired the confidential reports produced for FIFA by auditors Ernst & Young revealing how Warner was allowed to amass a fortune trading in tickets for Germany 2006.
One report estimated he and son Daryan cleared a profit of at least £500,000 on 5,400 tickets for England, Mexico and Japan matches The lenient treatment of Warner — who controls 35 crucial votes that keep FIFA president Sepp Blatter in power — contrasts starkly with the fate of fellow executive committee member Ismail Bhamjee in June.
Caught selling a dozen World Cup tickets to English fans, Bhamjee was instantly expelled.
Kevin Miles, international co-ordinator for the Football Supporters’ Federation, said: ‘The black market in tickets was the big scandal at this World Cup. There is growing evidence that this corruption goes to the heart of FIFA.
‘Every ticket on the black market is a ticket that has been initially supplied by FIFA to someoneONE of FIFA’s most senior figures secretly set up deals to sell thousands of World Cup tickets worth millions of pounds — including 900 destined for England fans — on the black market, Sportsmail can reveal.
Vice-president Jack Warner flagrantly defied FIFA’s rules, but confidential auditors’ reports exposing his activities before and during the tournament have been suppressed.
Sportsmail has acquired the confidential reports produced for FIFA by auditors Ernst & Young revealing how Warner was allowed to amass a fortune trading in tickets for Germany 2006.
One report estimated he and son Daryan cleared a profit of at least £500,000 on 5,400 tickets for England, Mexico and Japan matches.
The lenient treatment of Warner — who controls 35 crucial votes that keep FIFA president Sepp Blatter in power — contrasts starkly with the fate of fellow executive committee member Ismail Bhamjee in June.
Caught selling a dozen World Cup tickets to English fans, Bhamjee was instantly expelled.
Kevin Miles, international co-ordinator for the Football Supporters’ Federation, said: ‘The black market in tickets was the big scandal at this World Cup. There is growing evidence that this corruption goes to the heart of FIFA.
‘Every ticket on the black market is a ticket that has been initially supplied by FIFA to someone more interested in making money than watching football. This parasitic profiteering at the expense of genuine fans has got to stop.’
The Warners began operations in June 2005, using their private Simpaul travel company in Trinidad to strike secret deals to sell thousands of packages of rooms and tickets to agents around the world.
FIFA turned a blind eye but were forced to act when the Trinidad media revealed last December that Warner charged huge mark-ups on Simpaul ticket-and-room packages.
FIFA’s ethics committee criticised Warner’s ticket deals, concluding he had abused his position to obtain personal benefits and failed to declare his business interests.
But in March the executive committee absolved him after he claimed he had severed connections with Simpaul.
In fact, Daryan Warner continued as managing director of Simpaul and Jack Warner’s personal assistant Patricia Modeste, who gave her address as Warner’s office in Port of Spain, remained company secretary.
Through Simpaul, the Warners secretly sold ‘England Packages’ to David Gambier of the Abingdon-based Sports World Group, guaran
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