Trinidad ends US extradition bid for ex-FIFA vice-president Warner | Sports

PORT OF SPAIN, Sept 24, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Trinidad and Tobago will notextradite disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner to the UnitedStates, where he has been charged with corruption, a judge said on Tuesday. Warner, 82, has been banned for life by FIFA over a 2015 corruption scandalthat engulfed world football's governing body and led to FBI arrests inZurich and the prosecution of several top officials. Warner, a Trinidadian citizen, was indicted by the United States Departmentof Justice in May, 2015 and an arrest warrant was issued. But, after a 10-year-long saga, a high court judge in his native Trinidadfound that the extradition agreement between the two countries was flawed. At Tuesday's hearing, Warner's lead attorney, Fyard Hosein, argued that...