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Sancho: CONCACAF report shows pattern
« on: April 19, 2013, 09:53:38 PM »
Sancho: CONCACAF report shows pattern.
By Mark Pouchet (Express).


Former Soca Warrior Brent Sancho said the latest CONCACAF report revealing financial dealing during the tenure of former president Jack Warner, shows a similarity and a pattern in how Warner dealt with the senior team issue.

Yesterday the head of the CONCACAF Integrity Committee David Simmons described the regional body’s former president Warner and general secretary Chuck Blazer as “fraudulent in their management”.

Asked if there was anything  in the 113-page report that would aid the Soca Warriors in their multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF), Sancho said: “I think one thing it (the report) does show is there is a line or mirror of what was done at the TTFF, of what was done with the accounts there. It is very similar  in terms of lack of transparency and accountability.

Sancho said there were also similarities in the relationship with accountant Kenny Rampersad, also named in the Simmons report.

On the opening day of the CONCACAF Congress in Panama yesterday, Simmons, a former Barbados chief justice presented a detailed report into the activities of the regional body under Warner and Blazer based on documents and interviews with 38 people.

“I have recounted a sad and sorry tale in the life of CONCACAF, a tale of abuse of position and power, by persons who assisted in bringing the organisation to profitability but who enriched themselves at the expense of their very own organisations,” said Simmons.

The report mirrored the findings of a report by Trinidad Express investigative reporter Camini Maraj  that Warner did not disclose to CONCACAF, which presides over football in North, Central America and the Caribbean, or the world governing body FIFA, that the US $25.9 million Centre of Excellence was built on land owned by his companies.

Asked about the 2006 World Cup footballers dispute with the TTFF, Sancho said they had been meeting with TTFF president Raymond Tim Kee.

“We have quite decent discussions with Mr Tim Kee.

We are still trying to get this matter resolved and hopefully both parties  could come to some plausible resolution soon,” Sancho said.

But he admitted that while he would commend Tim Kee on his valiant efforts to resolve the matter, Sancho recognised the TTFF president was between a rock and a hard place.

“Obviously, he (Tim Kee) is  coming into a situation where  there is no money anywhere because of what happened before him and it is going to take some very strong movement within his structure (TTFF) and his dealings with CONCACAF and FIFA  to get this resolved,” he said.

Sancho said the TTFF should also consider going after Warner to recuperate monies that he said,”the Federation should have now but they don’t!”

« Last Edit: April 20, 2013, 03:55:56 AM by Flex »

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Re: Sancho: CONCACAF report shows pattern
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2013, 11:40:57 PM »
The report mirrored the findings of a report by Trinidad Express investigative reporter Camini Maraj  that Warner did not disclose to CONCACAF, which presides over football in North, Central America and the Caribbean, or the world governing body FIFA, that the US $25.9 million Centre of Excellence was built on land owned by his companies. Which itself mirrored the findings of Wired868 investigative reporter, Lasana Liburd

Just helping out. Obviously, Mark forgot to add that bit.  :devil:

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Re: Sancho: CONCACAF report shows pattern
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2013, 04:37:53 AM »
Sancho: Too late from Jack.
By Mark Pouchet (Express).


Former Soca Warrior Brent Sancho said Jack Warner’s version of how the debt to the 2006 World Cup footballers came into existence has come over six years too late.

At a public meeting at Pierre Road in Chaguanas Thursday night, Warner said in the aftermath of the 0-0 draw with Sweden in the Germany World Cup in 2006, he made a pledge to the players about bonuses for their performance. Warner claimed at the address entitled “Straight Talk,” that he obviously meant that  it would be based on the net amount and not the gross amount..

However, Sancho, one of 13 Soca Warriors who were embroiled in a legal battle with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) over the bonuses,  said Warner’s disclosure has came too late.

“He (Warner) has had six years to say something about that (the bonuses),  to  either deny whether it is net or gross. He has never once in those six years stepped forward either in the court or any of the arbitration processes and made a statement whether it is in affidavit etc. He has never ever disputed that, so why it is now at this hour he wants to talk about that?” Sancho asked.

Asked if Warner’s latest statements about how the bonus situation came into existence could affect their arrangement with the T&TFF and CONCACAF, Sancho said: “Absolutely not. “We (the 13 players) won on several occasions all in court  processes, all determining those factors whether it is net or gross.

It has all been decided, unless Mr Warner wants to turn the hands of time back and start all over from 2006. It has already been deliberated...and we won on three separate occasions. It is a bit too late. It has already been prescribed by the court,  it has a ruling, a judgment so in terms of where we sit, it is just a bunch of rambling from his side.”

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Re: Sancho: CONCACAF report shows pattern
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2013, 05:32:32 AM »
Everybody in T&T only know about bonuses and incentives.

Money, money and more money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dqm3WNB4b4


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Re: Sancho: CONCACAF report shows pattern
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2013, 07:53:30 AM »
Doesn't inland revenue have the ability to freeze Warner assets if he has failed to disclose these in his tax filing through the years? The gov't should have some ability to redirect tax payers monies that Warner has to the '06 players.
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Re: Sancho: CONCACAF report shows pattern
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2013, 12:33:32 PM »
According to Lasana Liburd on I95 today, there is a letter from Blatter stating that Havelange didn't contribute a single dollar to the CoE. Blatter then confirmed that FIFA would write off the debt

 

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