Trinidad’s gov’t official subject of US criminal probe
Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Wednesday, 03.27.13
Trinidads govt official subject of US criminal probe
By Jacqueline Charles
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com
A senior Trinidad and Tobago government official is the target of a U.S. criminal probe involving possible tax fraud and corruption allegations concerning international soccer, a leading newspaper in the island-nation reported.
According to the Trinidad Express, Jack Warner, the controversial minister of National Security, is the subject of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service. Warner is a former vice president of the International Federation of Football Association or FIFA, who was forced to resign in 2011 amid a bribery scandal involving the election of FIFAs president.
The newspaper references a Reuters news agency report and interview with the Mark Hosenball, one of the agencys investigative reporters. In the interview, Hosenball said one of Warners sons, Daryan, was a cooperating witness in part of the FBIs investigation.
The investigation is being conducted principally out of New York , the FBI office in New York by a team of FBI investigators who principally deal in what they call Eurasian organized crime, Hosenball told the Express. Exactly how this particular case fits into the general woodwork of Eurasian organized crime I am not entirely clear on."
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