Groden among those charged by FIFA

[royalian]

FIFA charges 16 officials
 
August 11, 2011
espn.com
 
FIFA has announced 16 officials from Caribbean associations have been charged with breaching rules on ethics in the wake of the bribery scandal that saw Mohamed Bin Hammam banned for life.

• FIFA open new bribery investigation
 • Caribbean countries brought to book

FIFA's Ethics Committee opened proceedings against the officials following investigations into a special meeting in Trinidad on May 10 and 11 where cash gifts of USD 40,000 were offered or given to associations belonging to the Caribbean Football Union.

One of the officials, Colin Klass from Guyana, a member of the CFU executive committee, has been provisionally suspended from all football activity. The 16 officials will face further investigations carried out by the company owned by former FBI chief Louis Freeh.

FIFA said in a statement: "The FIFA Ethics Committee has today opened ethics proceedings against 16 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) officials in regard to apparent violations of the Code of Ethics connected to the investigation of the cases related to the special meeting of the CFU held in Trinidad & Tobago on May 10 and 11, 2011.

"One of the officials, Colin Klass (Guyana), has been provisionally suspended from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) by the chairman of the Ethics Committee, Claudio Sulser (Switzerland), after consideration of the specific information received on this matter.

"Judge Robert T Torres, a member of the Ethics Committee, has been entrusted by the committee with supervising and directing the investigation. With the approval of the committee, he has engaged Freeh Group International Europe (FGI Europe) and the secretariat of the Ethics Committee to assist the committee with this task. The Ethics Committee will contact the 16 officials to arrange further interviews in connection with these proceedings.

"It is important to note that the investigations are still ongoing, and that it is therefore possible that further proceedings could be opened in the future."

Klass, president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), orchestrated a campaign by other associations to write letters backing FIFA vice-president Jack Warner after his provisional suspension on bribery charges.

Klass told Freeh investigators in June there was no offer or talk about cash gifts at the Trinidad meeting.

The Freeh report quotes evidence from Bahamas vice-president Fred Lunn, who took a photo of the cash he was given before returning it on the afternoon of May 10, stating that Klass went into the room when the money was being given.

The report states: "Outside the boardroom, Mr Lunn encountered Lionel Haven (a former Bahamas FA board member) and Colin Klass.

"According to Mr Lunn, Mr Klass stated: 'Why is this door locked, are there people getting bribed around here?' The male (CFU official) then allowed Mr Klass to enter the boardroom, which he exited after a few minutes. Mr Lunn noticed that Mr Klass had a smile on his face and was slightly giggling."

Klass told investigators, however, that he did not go into the boardroom.

The report states: "Mr Klass tried to enter the CFU boardroom on the afternoon of May 10, but was told that the room was not for him. Mr Klass remembered that Mr Warner said on May 11 that the only gifts were a laptop computer and projector.

"Mr Klass ... stated that (he) had not been offered or received any cash gift while in Trinidad and Tobago at the meeting."

The 16 officials are as follows:

David Hinds, Mark Bob Forde (Barbados)


Franka Pickering, Aubrey Liburd (British Virgin Islands)


David Frederick (Cayman Islands)


Osiris Guzman, Felix Ledesma (Dominican Republic)


Colin Klass, Noel Adonis (Guyana)


Yves Jean-Bart (Haiti)


Anthony Johnson (St Kitts and Nevis)


Patrick Mathurin (St Lucia)


Joseph Delves, Ian Hypolite (St Vincent and the Grenadines)


Richard Groden (Trinidad and Tobago)


Hillaren Frederick (US Virgin Islands)

[samo]

Some serious jail time is needed...

[dreamer]

Rippin' rib crunchin' right hand blow to de body .... Rodent now. 
Wicked left hand straight to the right face, eyes gettin' puffy and shuttin' dong ... Scampito very soon. 
Murderous stink upper cut to de chin and out for the 8 count ..... Jackula, coming to a theater near you.   


 

[rotatopoti3]

tis ting getting serious now..cause FBI involved too...men balls starting tuh squeeze...

one ah dem goe talk....

[dreamer]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/aug/11/fifa-caribbean-officials-charged?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Ffootball%2Frss+%28Football%29

 

[Bakes]

tis ting getting serious now..cause FBI involved too...men balls starting tuh squeeze...

one ah dem goe talk....

The FBI is not involved 

[King Deese]

Flashback- Richard Greedy & The TTFF In Action

Warner silent as Warriors' spirit fades
published: Tuesday | October 10, 2006


PORT-OF-SPAIN (Trinidad Express):

FIFA vice-president and Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) special adviser, Austin 'Jack' Warner, maintained his silence on Sunday, as the Soca Warriors continued to slide towards disbandment.

On Friday evening, the Warriors, led by team captain Dwight Yorke, declared their intention to resign from international duty due to an alleged breach of contract by the T&TFF.

A hasty release from T&TFF general secretary Richard Groden, which erroneously accused the players of planning a boycott of Saturday's friendly against St. Vincent and the Grenadines, suggested that the problem lay with the distribution of sponsorship money.

Groden submitted an unaudited statement of income and expendi-ture to the national media, which claimed that the T&TFF received TT$18,255,952 for its part in the Germany 2006 World Cup.

Accounting

The players are believed to be concerned about the accuracy of the T&TFF's accounting.

For starters, there was no mention of money accrued from television rights. The deal, which was agreed to between the players and Warner two days before the first leg World Cup play-off against Bahrain, controversially failed to share television money for the Bahrain legs, as well as a host of friendly matches against the likes of Iceland, Wales and the Czech Republic. These matches were televised throughout Europe by high-profile stations like Sky Sports and Euro Sports.

There is worry that several sponsors were omitted or figures doctored as well.

The T&TFF's accountant for this project, by its own admission, is Kenny Rampersad, who was revealed to be Warner's business partner during investigations on Simpaul Travel Services last December. Rampersad, at the time, was mandated to act on Simpaul's behalf.

Worse, as far as the players were concerned, the T&TFF then deducted expenses before handing over the Warriors' share. And a $9 million share was reduced to TT$141,102 to be split 25 ways - 24 players and one share for the players' committee.

[rotatopoti3]

Bakes tis is from BBC...u right ah misread it is d former FBI director but I could have sworn somewhere else I read dat d FBI were getting involved...


http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/6622619/fifa-hires-ex-fbi-boss-louis-freeh-agency-bribery-probe
ah now see in tis article here that is Freeh own company...so more FIFA money for he too...


Fifa to probe Caribbean officials in bribery scandal

Thursday, 11 August 2011 23:59 UK

The 16 Caribbean officials are suspected of taking cash bribes to back Bin Hammam in the Fifa presidential elections
Fifa has asked its ethics committee to investigate 16 Caribbean football leaders in connection with the bribery scandal involving ex-presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.

The senior officials are suspected of taking cash bribes to back Bin Hammam in Fifa's presidential election.

They are also accused of denying the corruption attempt to investigators.

Bin Hammam was found guilty of trying to buy votes last month, but is waiting to appeal.

Football's governing body says the suspects include Colin Klass of Guyana, a long-standing ally of former Caribbean football official Jack Warner.

Mr Klass has been provisionally suspended from all football-related activities by Fifa's Ethics Committee "after consideration of specific information received on the matter", said the organisation.

Also on the list is Mark Bob Forde from Barbados, who was a Fifa referee for international matches for two decades, and Yves Jean-Bart, head of the Haitian football federation.

Blatter pledge
The 16 officials, from 11 different countries, will be interviewed by former FBI director Louis Freeh's team and Fifa says more cases could follow.

The new investigation comes a day after Fifa handed lifetime bans to six international referees from Hungary and Bosnia, after finding them guilty of match-fixing.

The BBC's Imogen Foulkes says Thursday's announcement will be a blow to footballing nations in the Caribbean, as they prepare to play World Cup qualifying matches in the coming months.

Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, was re-elected in June after a single-candidate vote. The English and Scottish Football Associations had called for the vote to be postponed but failed to win enough support for the measure.

Mr Blatter promised to "put Fifa's ship back on the right course in clear, transparent waters" and his supporters say the new probe is honouring that pledge.

But his critics say he has simply been forced by circumstances to address a problem that has been endemic in football for years, says our correspondent.

[Bakes]

Bakes tis is from BBC...ah misread it is d former FBI director but I could have sworn somewhere else I read dat d FBI were getting involved...

FBI is police... fuhget de big name, dey's police, just federal police.  They only have jurisdiction within the US... unless ah crime take place on US soil FBI can't get involved, and even then only if it is a federal crime, or involve a crime across multiple states, like thiefing money in NY and taking it to NJ.  But yeah... Freeh was FBI Director under Clinton 17-18 years ago.  I think FIFA keep trotting out the "FBI" link to add a sense of credibility to the investigation.

[truetrini]

FBI works all over the world in collaboration with local police

[Bakes]

FBI works all over the world in collaboration with local police

I'm really not about to get into a silly argument over this... allyuh want to buy into that TV shit then good fuh allyuh.

[truetrini]

They do and they did so in T&T with the kidnapping of a us citizen call balram  balo maharajan ex soldier in the US army.  He was kidnapped...they also went to aruba in the Natalee Holloway case

[Big Magician]

it good fuh we

we only want to talk about coach and shithong players and local based eh good and foreign based good ..and 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 AND da da da..and utd and arsenal and barca and messi...

THE TIME IS NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
LETS GET DESE MUDDER C#NTS OUT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[rotatopoti3]

They do and they did so in T&T with the kidnapping of a us citizen call balram  balo maharajan ex soldier in the US army.  He was kidnapped...they also went to aruba in the Natalee Holloway case

well TT in those 2 situations dey have some form ah jurisdiction in arguing that dey both involved both American citizens.. so most ah dem fellas may not answer tuh nothing..apart from d US Virgin islands...

[truetrini]

They do and they did so in T&T with the kidnapping of a us citizen call balram  balo maharajan ex soldier in the US army.  He was kidnapped...they also went to aruba in the Natalee Holloway case

well TT in those 2 situations dey have some form ah jurisdiction in arguing that dey both involved both American citizens.. so most ah dem fellas may not answer tuh nothing..apart from d US Virgin islands...

I was meely stating that the FBI does work with local police overseas..dais all

[Bakes]

FBI has no authority outside the US... if TnT police or Aruban police want help investigating the murder of an American citizen they can request the FBI's help.  Same way Guyana Civil Aviation Authority can request that the NTSB assist with investigating the Caribbean Airlines incident.

[truetrini]

FBI has no authority outside the US... if TnT police or Aruban police want help investigating the murder of an American citizen they can request the FBI's help.  Same way Guyana Civil Aviation Authority can request that the NTSB assist with investigating the Caribbean Airlines incident.

So what I say different to this?  You say is silly talk and tv shit...

[Bakes]

FBI has no authority outside the US... if TnT police or Aruban police want help investigating the murder of an American citizen they can request the FBI's help.  Same way Guyana Civil Aviation Authority can request that the NTSB assist with investigating the Caribbean Airlines incident.

So what I say different to this?  You say is silly talk and tv shit...

FBI can't just go marching "all over the world"... in rare circumstances they will lend assistance, only when requested and only in special circumstances.

[Sam]

It good !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come for more.....

Cheryl Abrams next...

[reggae-fan]

Kinda surprising that Messrs Horace Burrell and Horace Ried of Jamaica are not involved. I guess Burrell doesnt have time to accept petty $US40,000 handouts when he could be raking that in in a half days work form his $ Multi Million Air-lift business and food chain / bakery.

Or is it that another round of names will be released in the near future?

[Socapro]

it good fuh we

we only want to talk about coach and shithong players and local based eh good and foreign based good ..and 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 AND da da da..and utd and arsenal and barca and messi...

THE TIME IS NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
LETS GET DESE MUDDER C#NTS OUT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

 

[Flex]

FIFA appoints Issa Hayatou to lead Goal Bureau
ZURICH (AP) —

The African Football Confederation says its president Issa Hayatou has been appointed as chairman of FIFA's Goal Bureau to distribute development funds.

CAF also said Tuesday that Hayatou, a FIFA vice president from Cameroon, will take charge of the organising committee for Olympic football tournaments ahead of next year's games in London.

Hayatou replaces banned Qatari official Mohamed bin Hammam as head of the Goal Bureau, which was created in 1999 to allocate millions of dollars of project funds to FIFA's less-developed members.

FIFA banned bin Hammam for life for allegedly offering bribes to Caribbean football leaders in May when he was a presidential candidate.

Hayatou will lead an eight-man Goal Bureau committee including Richard Groden, the general secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago football federation who is under investigation by FIFA for his role in the bin Hammam scandal.

[grimm01]

FIFA appoints Issa Hayatou to lead Goal Bureau
ZURICH (AP) —

The African Football Confederation says its president Issa Hayatou has been appointed as chairman of FIFA's Goal Bureau to distribute development funds.

CAF also said Tuesday that Hayatou, a FIFA vice president from Cameroon, will take charge of the organising committee for Olympic football tournaments ahead of next year's games in London.

Hayatou replaces banned Qatari official Mohamed bin Hammam as head of the Goal Bureau, which was created in 1999 to allocate millions of dollars of project funds to FIFA's less-developed members.

FIFA banned bin Hammam for life for allegedly offering bribes to Caribbean football leaders in May when he was a presidential candidate.

Hayatou will lead an eight-man Goal Bureau committee including Richard Groden, the general secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago football federation who is under investigation by FIFA for his role in the bin Hammam scandal.

Groden under investigation and still on official business?

BTW it come out that Issa son is the VP of the company that acquired the tv rights for CAF football...
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/revealed-hayatou%E2%80%99s-son-is-vp-of-new-caf-tv-right-owners/

[Jack Horner]

As I told you guys.

FIFA is a big gimmick, this is why Jack resign.

Gorden will walk scratch free, wait and see guys.

Jack will raise again !!!!

[Flex]

FIFA begins Caribbean bribery cases
The Associated Press

ZURICH -- The latest wave of FIFA election bribery cases began Tuesday, as 15 Caribbean soccer officials started explaining their part in an alleged plot involving former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam.

FIFA said its ethics committee would hear the defendants over three days, and was expected to deliver verdicts on Friday.

The 15 officials from 11 Caribbean countries are accused of accepting $40,000 cash payments in Trinidad during Bin Hammam's later-abandoned challenge to FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

They were charged after FIFA appointed former FBI director Louis Freeh to continue leading an investigation that began in May.

FIFA's gravest scandal in 107 years has removed two of its most influential powerbrokers -- Asian football president Bin Hammam and FIFA vice president Jack Warner -- from office after a combined 43 years sitting on world soccer's ruling executive committee.

Bin Hammam, who denies bribery, is appealing his lifetime ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and FIFA dropped charges against Trinidad and Tobago government minister Warner after he resigned his soccer positions in June.

The defendants now facing bans include FIFA committee members Yves Jean-Bart of Haiti and Richard Groden of Trinidad and Tobago. Jean-Bart sits on the associations panel that monitors FIFA's 208 national members and Groden helps allocate tens of millions of dollars of development funding as a member of the Goal Bureau which Bin Hammam chaired for 12 years.

The Haitian official is among five national association presidents answering charges this week, including one of soccer's most senior women officials: Franka Pickering of the British Virgin Islands.

Former international referee Mark Bob Forde of Barbados has also been charged and faces a ban from soccer duty.

Along with Bin Hammam in July, FIFA's ethics panel suspended two Caribbean Football Union members of staff after ruling that they distributed $40,000 cash payments in brown envelopes in a Trinidad hotel.

Caribbean Football Union vice president Colin Klass, a longtime Warner ally, received a 26-month FIFA ban after a separate hearing last month. The Guyana federation president lost his seat on FIFA's futsal and beach soccer committee.

Qatari candidate Bin Hammam withdrew his election bid three days before the FIFA poll in June.

Blatter was left unopposed to receive a fourth four-year presidential term, and was endorsed by 186 FIFA members, including most Caribbean islands.

Blatter is scheduled on Oct. 21 to provide details of his promised anti-corruption project to clean up world soccer and its damaged image.


Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press

[Tallman]

FIFA Ethics Committee takes decisions on ethics proceedings against CFU officials
FIFA.com

The FIFA Ethics Committee, chaired by Claudio Sulser (Switzerland), has today (14 October 2011) taken decisions regarding the ethics proceedings that had been opened in August against several Caribbean Football Union (CFU) officials. The proceedings had been opened in regard to apparent violations of the Code of Ethics connected to the investigation of the cases related to the special meeting of the CFU held in Trinidad & Tobago on 10 and 11 May 2011.

The Ethics Committee took the following decisions:

Franka Pickering (British Virgin Islands) has been banned for a period of 18 months from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) and has received a fine of CHF 500.

Horace Burrell (Jamaica) has been banned for a period of six months from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other). The Ethics Committee decided to suspend three months of the ban, subject to a probationary period of two years. 

Osiris Guzman (Dominican Republic) has been banned for a period of 30 days from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) and has received a fine of CHF 300. The Ethics Committee decided to suspend 15 days of the ban, subject to a probationary period of six months.

Ian Hypolite (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) has been banned for a period of 30 days from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) and has received a fine of CHF 300. The Ethics Committee decided to suspend 15 days of the ban, subject to a probationary period of six months.

Aubrey Liburd (British Virgin Islands) has received a reprimand and a fine of CHF 300.
Hillaren Frederick (US Virgin Islands) has received a reprimand and a fine of CHF 300.
Anthony Johnson (St. Kitts and Nevis) has received a reprimand but no fine.

The following officials have received a warning:

David Hinds (Barbados), Mark Bob Forde (Barbados), Richard Groden (Trinidad & Tobago), Yves Jean-Bart (Haiti) and Horace Reid (Jamaica)

Felix Ledesma (Dominican Republic) was considered not to have committed any violation.

The hearing of Noel Adonis (Guyana) has been postponed, while in the case of Patrick Mathurin (St. Lucia), more information is required and therefore no decision has been taken at this stage.

The cases of David Frederick (Cayman Islands) and Joseph Delves (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) were closed since they are no longer football officials. Should they return to football official positions, their cases would be examined again by the Ethics Committee.

[Mad Scorpion a/k/a Big Bo$$]

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — FIFA has banned senior Caribbean football official Horace Burrell for six months for the Jamaican’s part in a bribery conspiracy involving former presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hamamm.

Burrell, a long time ally of former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, must now withdraw his candidacy in the Caribbean Football Union presidential election scheduled next month.

FIFA says three months of the Jamaica Federation president’s ban from all football duties will be deferred for a probationary period of two years.

FIFA also banned one of the most senior women in world football, Franka Pickering, of the British Virgin Islands, for 18 months.

Two more officials received 30-day bans, one was reprimanded and five others received warnings.

Read more:http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/FIFA-bans-Jamaica-s-Burrell-in-bribery-plot

[Mad Scorpion a/k/a Big Bo$$]

This will clear way for a puppet regime

[royal]

FIFA is a real joke.Why they doh let Platini run for CFU President.   

[dreamer]

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sports/FIFA-bans-Jamaica-s-Burrell-in-bribery-plot