adminPort-of-Spain — Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner is vowing to fight a US bid to extradite him from Trinidad to face charges in the Fifa corruption case.
A defiant Warner says he is looking forward to the legal battles as he prepares for a first hearing on July 9. He spoke to supporters of his Independent Liberal Party outside Port-of-Spain and said that it will be a “long hot summer.”
Warner could drag the extradition process out for more than three years with appeals.
He is accused of taking payments tota’ling $10 million sent by a high-ranking Fifa official to secure to South Africa the right to host the 2010 World Cup over Morocco. Warner left Fifa in 2011 and has denied wrongdoing. — AP
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