AFP, Geneva :
FIFA president Sepp Blatter sold off television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups to disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner at a knockdown price, Swiss media have claimed.
Swiss television channel SRF alleged that Blatter signed off the screening rights for South Africa and Brazil to Warner for 600,000 dollars (o389,000, 529,000 euros) – a mere 5% of their true market value.
Warner was at the time of the deal in 2005 flying high in world football as FIFA vice-president and boss of football’s governing body in North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF).
His fortunes have since plummeted and he is now fighting extradition from his native Trinidad and Tobago to the United States after being named in the FIFA corruption probe rocking world football.
Warner was arrested by Trinidad authorities after the United States indicted him and 13 other football officials and marketing executives for corruption.
