Rachael Es­pinet

For­mer T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion (TTFF) pres­i­dent Oliv­er Camps says he is in dan­ger of los­ing his home and all of his be­long­ings be­cause he trust­ed for­mer Fi­fa vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er too much.

In an in­ter­view last week with CNC3, Camps dis­closed that his as­sets were tied up in the TTFF's as­sets be­cause he trust­ed Warn­er.

"How can you do me that? That's some­thing I have to ask him. How could you do me that? Be­cause I trust­ed him like my broth­er, and to have me in this sit­u­a­tion now makes me very sad," Camps said.

He was an­swer­ing ques­tions re­lat­ed to the mil­lions of dol­lars, in­tend­ed­for the de­vel­op­ment of Caribbean foot­ball, which­have re­port­ed­ly gone miss­ing.

Camps said he was not aware of where the mon­ey went.

He said he was pri­mar­i­ly in charge of the man­age­ment of the TTFF and the growth of the play­ers, and Warn­er and oth­ers han­dled the fi­nances.

"I was not in­volved in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the foot­ball. Even if they put me as an of­fi­cer or one of the of­fi­cials, I was still the man­ag­er of the team and that is where I put all of our ef­forts," Camps said.

Re­flect­ing on his role in the TTFF, Camps said many would think he was fool­ish for trust­ing Warn­er as he did. But he said he did what was nec­es­sary for the play­ers to get what they did.

At one point he agreed to tie his name and his as­sets to the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

"I am very dis­ap­point­ed that they should even think of do­ing that be­cause I was hon­est with them and I did every­thing pos­si­ble above board to help them. And to hear now what I am hear­ing, it hurts my heart. That's all I could tell you," Camps said.

As to the meet­ing Warn­er held at the Hy­att Ho­tel where $40,000US bribes were al­leged­ly paid, Camps said he left be­fore the al­leged in­ci­dent oc­cured.

"It was brought to the of­fice by some­body who was there at the meet­ing, and then it was sent to Mr Warn­er, so I had noth­ing to do with it," he said.

Warn­er and Camps are among sev­er­alpeo­ple charged by US pros­e­cu­tors over al­leged cor­rup­tion at Fi­fa.

The US Jus­tice de­part­ment al­leges the 14 ac­cept­ed bribes and kick­backs es­ti­mat­ed at more than $150m (�97m) over a 24-year pe­ri­od.

Warn­er de­nies all charges of cor­rup­tion.

Camps said he holds no ill will against Warn­er.

"I thought he was do­ing a good thing for the play­ers be­cause I thought it was gen­uine," Camps said.