The statement in the video makes it clear that disgraced former FIFA Presidential candidate Mohammed Bin Hamman was offering the gifts with no strings attached and that it was the monetary equivalent of gifts that he was planning to give the delegates.
Warner also makes it clear that the money was to be used for the improvement of football in the respective regional states and that incumbent FIFA President Sepp Blatter was aware of the gifts.
View the video and read the transcript:
Exclusive video of Jack Warner apparently offering 'gifts’ of £25,000 to Caribbean delegates – full transcript
In an immediate response to the release of the video Warner noted that it is "interesting" that it was made available to a global audience "on the very day that Caribbean Football Union (CFU) delegates are to appear before the disciplinary committee of FIFA."
He added that the release of the video "is tantamount to contempt because it seeks to influence international opinion against what is clearly a conspiracy against the delegates of the Caribbean Football Union. Moreover there are lot more questions which the FIFA should answer from this convenient revelation."
Warner noted that Caribbean delegates are currently in Zurich and are actively involved in disciplinary proceedings established by the FIFA "so this leak is clearly sub judicious and contrary to the very principles of law and justice."
He said, "Regretfully, this is what defines the FIFA; a perceived right to do all in its power, right or wrong, to defend its own.
"The Caribbean Football Union delegates must be found guilty if Sepp Blatter is to appear as an honourable man weeding out corruption from the FIFA.
"So the tiny Union in the Caribbean must be the scapegoat; and a team of officials, all Swiss and strategically located along the FIFA’s hierarchical strata is in place to ensure that their Swiss brother, Sepp Blatter, emerges with his integrity intact.
"As Chuck Blazer has just "found out", it is not a matter of coincidence that the Chairman of the FIFA Ethics Committee, Claudio Sulser, is Swiss. It is not a matter of chance that the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, Marcel Mathier, also happens to be Swiss.
"It is not through any democratic process that the same Marcel Mathier happened to have been Sepp Blatter's Swiss lawyer.
"It is therefore not uncanny that Bin Hammam was charged with corruption prior to the FIFA elections to protect the interest of another Swiss, the unopposed President of FIFA. Clearly, the Swiss seems to have a morality of its own."
Warner closed his statement to the media by saying:
"Gentlemen permit me a few more moments of blissful silence. In the near future, all will be revealed. FIFA cannot be allowed to continue tarnishing the images and characters of good men.
"For it is clear that the FIFA is determined to stop at nothing as they seek to destroy, to extirpate those they have defined as their enemies from any sphere of influence.
"However, truth crushed to the ground will rise again. At the end of the day, the truth will prevail. In time, truth will always arise."
Exclusive video of Jack Warner apparently offering 'gifts’ of £25,000 to Caribbean delegates – full transcript
In an immediate response to the release of the video Warner noted that it is "interesting" that it was made available to a global audience "on the very day that Caribbean Football Union (CFU) delegates are to appear before the disciplinary committee of FIFA."
He added that the release of the video "is tantamount to contempt because it seeks to influence international opinion against what is clearly a conspiracy against the delegates of the Caribbean Football Union. Moreover there are lot more questions which the FIFA should answer from this convenient revelation."
Warner noted that Caribbean delegates are currently in Zurich and are actively involved in disciplinary proceedings established by the FIFA "so this leak is clearly sub judicious and contrary to the very principles of law and justice."
He said, "Regretfully, this is what defines the FIFA; a perceived right to do all in its power, right or wrong, to defend its own.
"The Caribbean Football Union delegates must be found guilty if Sepp Blatter is to appear as an honourable man weeding out corruption from the FIFA.
"So the tiny Union in the Caribbean must be the scapegoat; and a team of officials, all Swiss and strategically located along the FIFA’s hierarchical strata is in place to ensure that their Swiss brother, Sepp Blatter, emerges with his integrity intact.
"As Chuck Blazer has just "found out", it is not a matter of coincidence that the Chairman of the FIFA Ethics Committee, Claudio Sulser, is Swiss. It is not a matter of chance that the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, Marcel Mathier, also happens to be Swiss.
"It is not through any democratic process that the same Marcel Mathier happened to have been Sepp Blatter's Swiss lawyer.
"It is therefore not uncanny that Bin Hammam was charged with corruption prior to the FIFA elections to protect the interest of another Swiss, the unopposed President of FIFA. Clearly, the Swiss seems to have a morality of its own."
Warner closed his statement to the media by saying:
"Gentlemen permit me a few more moments of blissful silence. In the near future, all will be revealed. FIFA cannot be allowed to continue tarnishing the images and characters of good men.
"For it is clear that the FIFA is determined to stop at nothing as they seek to destroy, to extirpate those they have defined as their enemies from any sphere of influence.
"However, truth crushed to the ground will rise again. At the end of the day, the truth will prevail. In time, truth will always arise."
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