MIAMI — Suspended CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb was a director 10 years ago of a Cayman Islands company controlled by Jack Warner, the former head of the Americas regional soccer body who is facing US corruption charges, a court document shows. The document links Webb, who is also facing US charges and who pledged to fight corruption when he took over CONCACAF in 2012, to controversial television rights deals that were struck in the region during Warner's 21 years at the helm of CONCACAF.
Webb had vowed to reform the confederation which governs the sport in North and Central America and the Caribbean following a “cash for votes” scandal involving Warner and Qatari Mohammed Bin Hammam, then president of the Asian Football Confederation
A lawyer for Warner declined to comment on the document. Webb's lawyer was not immediately reachable.
Webb, who has also been suspended as a vice president of world soccer governing body FIFA, is currently being detained in Switzerland after he was indicted by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of its probe into soccer-related corruption.
The DOJ has accused Webb of receiving kickbacks from deals with sports marketing company Traffic Sports, after taking over as CONCACAF president. On Tuesday, CONCACAF and Traffic ended their corporate relationships. — Reuters
