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Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner to reveal FIFA secrets

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Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has said in a TV address that he will reveal all he knows about corruption at world football’s governing body.

Warner, who said he feared for his life, also said he could link Fifa officials to general elections in his native Trinidad and Tobago in 2010.

In an extraordinary seven-minute speech aired as a paid political broadcast on TV in Trinidad and Tobago, the former high-ranking official said he will “no longer keep secrets for them who actively seek to destroy the country”.

Mr Warner said he had documents which link Fifa officials, including Mr Blatter, to the 2010 political elections in the Caribbean nation where he was once football association chief.

He is one of the 14 people charged by the US over alleged corruption at Fifa.

Who is Jack Warner?

Warner is a Trinidad and Tobago politician, businessman .

Warner held the offices of Vice president of FIFA and President of CONCACAF until his suspension and eventual resignation from these roles in 2011.

He is also the former Minister of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago and was an elected member of that country’s parliament from November 2007 to 26 April 2013.

A former school teacher (history), he is the owner of Joe Public F.C., a professional football club based in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago.

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