Jack Warner quits FIFA

11 April 2012

Jack Warner, the man at the centre of the FIFA bribery scandal, today resigned from all his positions in international football.

The 68-year-old, the longest-serving member of FIFA's executive committee, had been suspended pending the outcome of a bribery inquiry.

FIFA said the ethics committee procedures against him "have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained".

Vice-president Warner and fellow FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam, who is also suspended, are alleged to have paid bribes totalling £600,000 to Caribbean associations. Both men have denied the allegations.

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