Ex-FIFA VP Warner surrenders, 12 schemes outlined by prosecutors
(Agencies) Updated: 2015-05-28 07:4712 schemes outlined by prosecutors in soccer indictment
Scheme A - 1993, 1995 AND 1997 COPA AMERICAS
Traffic Brazil purchased rights for the three tournaments in a deal worth $6.6 million. Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay, then president of the South American governing body CONMEBOL and later a FIFA executive committee member, refused to sign the contract until he received a dollar payment in six figures.
In 1993 and 1995, Leoz demanded additional payments starting in 1993 or 1995 for future Copa America tournaments, and payments increased over time to seven figures.
In 2007, the year Venezuela hosted the tournament, the country's soccer federation president, Rafael Esquivel, demanded and received $1 million and $700,000 payments from Traffic.
Scheme B - CONCACAF GOLD CUP
Traffic Sports USA caused hundreds of thousands in payments to be made to Jack Warner, then president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), and co-conspirator No 1, whose description matches that of then-CONCACAF General Secretary Chuck Blazer.
Scheme C - COPA LIBERTADORES
Starting around the early 2000s, Leoz asked for payments from a sports marketing company and for diversion of payments slated to go to CONMEBOL in exchange for support of that company in a marketing deal. Leoz asked in February and May 2006 for more than $2 million owed to CONMEBOL by an affiliate of that company to be sent to Leoz's accounts in Paraguay and Switzerland. Leoz asked for additional payments around 2008.
Scheme D - COPA DO BRAZIL
Jose Maria Marin, then president of Brazilian soccer's governing body, requested bribe payments in 2012 as part of Traffic Brazil and an unidentified sports marketing company's contract for the Copa do Brazil for 2013-22. The bribe payments, which totaled 2 million reals (approximately $986,000), were split among Marin and two unidentified people.
Scheme E - BRAZILIAN FEDERATION EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER
The Confederacao Brasileira de Desportos, the governing body of Brazilian soccer, announced a 10-year sponsorship and endorsement agreement with Nike in 1996 that made the company the exclusive jersey and equipment supplier to the federation, including the national team.
Nike's deal called for it to pay the CBF $160 million, of which the CBF gave a percentage to Traffic Brazil.
Nike then agreed to pay a Traffic affiliate with a Swiss bank account an additional $40 million.
Scheme F - 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 World Cup QUALIFIERS IN THE CARIBBREAN
Warner was also president of the Caribbean Football Union and a special adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. Traffic USA bought rights to Caribbean home World Cup qualifiers from CFU, then bought the rights to Trinidad's home qualifiers, which it already owned, from the TTFA.
Traffic USA then diverted payments to a Warner-controlled account. In one of the examples, for 2006 World Cup qualifiers, Traffic USA paid the CFU $900,000, then agreed to pay the TTFA $800,000 for rights it already owned and wired the money to an account in Trinidad and Tobago that Warner controlled. For the 2010 World Cup, Traffic USA paid the CFU $2.2 million, then paid Warner-controlled accounts $800,000 for the same rights.
Scheme G - 2010 WORLD CUP VOTES
In the early 2000s, Warner directed co-conspirator No 14, identified as a member of his family, to pick up a briefcase with ``bundles of US currency in $10,000 stacks in a hotel room'' from co-conspirator No 15, identified as a high-ranking South African bid committee official.
