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Jack Warner faces a fight to avoid expulsion from world football governing body Fifa as he is caught up in another World Cup ticket scandal.
Britain’s Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that Warner was involved in the sale of thousands of World Cup tickets on the black market, including to 900 England fans.
A report by journalist Andrew Jennings said the paper had obtained confidential reports, produced by auditors Ernst & Young for Fifa, that Warner made at least 500,000 British pounds (US$933,000) trading in World Cup tickets.
Another report on ESPNsoccernet yesterday quoted the accountants saying: “We can confirm that tickets included in orders under customer reference 201498572 (Mr Jack Warner) were transferred or resold into the secondary market in breach of the 2006 Fifa World Cup Germany ticketing general terms and conditions.”
According to the report, which has been published on www.transparencyinsport.org, the auditors were called in when Antonio Gallicchio, head of a Swiss travel firm, complained to Fifa that he had not received a number of World Cup tickets, with a cover price of 100 euros, for which he was paying 400 euros each.
It alleged that Warner had bought the tickets from a Florida-based agency called Kick Sports but Ernst & Young reported tracing the source of the tickets to Warner.
They allegedly established that “Warner had bought 180 tickets on his credit card at face value of 100 euros each, they were picked up from Fifa’s ticket office by his son Daryan, and were then bought from Kick Sports by Gallicchio for 400 euros apiece—54,000 euros (£37,000) more than face value,” a report on the Web site sportinglife.com reported.
Warner could not be contacted yesterday for comment.
It is not the first time Warner has been under World Cup ticket scrutiny.
In February, he was cited by Fifa for an ethics violation over World Cup ticket sales.
The only company selling tickets in T&T, Simpaul, was a travel agency owned by Warner’s family.
In March, Warner’s fellow executive committee members allowed him a reprieve despite ruling he was guilty of a clear conflict of interest.
Fifa spokesman Andreas Herren said the executive committee will discuss this latest matter on Friday in Zurich at Warner’s request, the Daily Mail said.
“In this case, such matters request very careful assessment in order to avoid prejudgement,” Herren told The Associated Press.
Britain’s Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that Warner was involved in the sale of thousands of World Cup tickets on the black market, including to 900 England fans.
A report by journalist Andrew Jennings said the paper had obtained confidential reports, produced by auditors Ernst & Young for Fifa, that Warner made at least 500,000 British pounds (US$933,000) trading in World Cup tickets.
Another report on ESPNsoccernet yesterday quoted the accountants saying: “We can confirm that tickets included in orders under customer reference 201498572 (Mr Jack Warner) were transferred or resold into the secondary market in breach of the 2006 Fifa World Cup Germany ticketing general terms and conditions.”
According to the report, which has been published on www.transparencyinsport.org, the auditors were called in when Antonio Gallicchio, head of a Swiss travel firm, complained to Fifa that he had not received a number of World Cup tickets, with a cover price of 100 euros, for which he was paying 400 euros each.
It alleged that Warner had bought the tickets from a Florida-based agency called Kick Sports but Ernst & Young reported tracing the source of the tickets to Warner.
They allegedly established that “Warner had bought 180 tickets on his credit card at face value of 100 euros each, they were picked up from Fifa’s ticket office by his son Daryan, and were then bought from Kick Sports by Gallicchio for 400 euros apiece—54,000 euros (£37,000) more than face value,” a report on the Web site sportinglife.com reported.
Warner could not be contacted yesterday for comment.
It is not the first time Warner has been under World Cup ticket scrutiny.
In February, he was cited by Fifa for an ethics violation over World Cup ticket sales.
The only company selling tickets in T&T, Simpaul, was a travel agency owned by Warner’s family.
In March, Warner’s fellow executive committee members allowed him a reprieve despite ruling he was guilty of a clear conflict of interest.
Fifa spokesman Andreas Herren said the executive committee will discuss this latest matter on Friday in Zurich at Warner’s request, the Daily Mail said.
“In this case, such matters request very careful assessment in order to avoid prejudgement,” Herren told The Associated Press.
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