The Manicou Report

The Daily Mail reports that daddy’s dearest aka Daryan Warner was secretly fined almost US $1M by FIFA (of which $250,000 had been paid) which represents the profit he would have made on the sale of 5,400 World Cup tickets for England, Mexico and Japan games over the course of last year’s tournament.

Last September the Daily Mail’s Andrew Jennings (Warner’s nemesis) revealed that Warner was being investigated for suspected shady dealings concerning World Cup tickets. Last December FIFA announced that they had cleared Jack Warner of all wrongdoing saying:

“It could not be evidenced that Mr Jack Warner had knowledge of the resale of these tickets at a higher price.

“The resale is certainly forbidden, but the person who did the reselling is not subject to the FIFA jurisdiction, because it is the son of Jack Warner.”

FIFA did recommend however that Jack Warner be scolded and reprimanded which Warner took as vindication.

Jennings says now that Warner was not only reprimanded, but been secretly fined during last December’s executive committee meeting and that FIFA stipulated that the $992,652US be donated to the charity SOS Children’s Villages. Jennings added that Daryan Warner’s company Simpaul Travel has been banned from dealing in tickets. The secret deadline for full payment of the fine is on March 22, but Jennings suggests that there won’t be any further action if Warner decides not to pay since Jack Warner controls 35 crucial votes that will ensure Sepp Blatter gets a third term.

Of course these are all allegations made by Andrew Jennings who seems at times to have an axe to grind with Warner. You can see the full stories here and here (including “secret reports that FIFA suppressed”).