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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

$2.5 million bail for former National Security Minister on corruption charges

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For­mer Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Jack Warn­er, out­side the of­fices of his Sun­shine News­pa­pers, May 27. Pho­to: Mar­cus Gon­za­les

Fomer Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Jack Warn­er was grant­ed$2.5m bail on12 charges of fraud, rack­e­teer­ing and­money laun­der­ing.

Warn­er ap­peared be­fore Chief Mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates Court on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

He was rep­re­sent­ed by Fyard Ho­sein, Rishi Dass and Nyree Al­fon­so.

He was or­dered to sur­ren­der his pass­port and re­port to theArou­ca po­lice sta­tion twice week­ly. The mat­ter was ad­journed to Ju­ly 9.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Warn­er had ear­li­er sur­ren­dered toof­fi­cers at­tached to the Fraud Squad, af­ter a pro­vi­sion­al war­rant was is­sued for his ar­rest on Wednes­day.

He is one of sev­er­al FI­FA of­fi­cials­fac­ing charges over­wide­spread cor­rup­tionover the past two decades.FI­FA is the or­gan­i­sa­tion re­spon­si­ble for the reg­u­la­tion and pro­mo­tion of foot­ball world­wide.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Jack Warn­er is es­cort­ed to the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates Court, May 27. Pho­to: Rober­to Co­dal­lo

Ac­cord­ing to sources, Warn­er went to the Of­fice of the Fraud Suad on the cor­ner of Rich­mond and Park Streets, Port-of-Spain to sur­ren­der him­self on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

A re­lease fromthe Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­alis­sued on Wednes­day said that the Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty had­been co­op­er­at­ing with the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Jus­tice for about a year­regard­ing Jack Warn­er.

"To­day, the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca for­mal­ly re­quest­ed the as­sis­tance of the Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty for the is­su­ing of a Pro­vi­sion­al Ar­rest War­rant for Warn­er, pend­ing the com­mence­ment of ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings."

The re­lease said that Warn­er is en­ti­tled to a fair ex­tra­di­tion process and both the re­quest­ing and re­quest­ed states in­tend to en­sure that his rights are re­spect­ed.The re­quest was made ac­cord­ing to the ex­tra­di­tion treaty be­tween the U.S. and T&T gov­ern­ments.


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