The son of dis­graced for­mer world foot­ball boss Jack Warn­er has de­scribed his role in a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar World Cup tick­et scam, buy­ing up seats and sell­ing them at in­flat­ed prices, in court doc­u­ments un­sealed June 5.

Daryan Warn­er's guilty plea to a string of charges is set out in a 2013 agree­ment with US pros­e­cu­tors to pro­vide ev­i­dence of FI­FA wrong­do­ing.

His broth­er, Daryll, al­so made a plea deal af­ter be­ing ac­cused of mort­gage fraud.

The doc­u­ments sug­gest the US De­part­ment of Jus­tice is in­ves­ti­gat­ing fraud­u­lent tick­et sales dat­ing all the way back to 1994, when the World Cup was held in the Unit­ed States for the first time.

"In 2006, I pur­chased the tick­ets di­rect­ly from FI­FA, and I mis­led FI­FA to be­lieve that my part­ner in re­selling the tick­ets was not in­volved in the trans­ac­tion, be­cause I be­lieve that FI­FA would not have sold them to me had he been in­volved,"he said.

"In 2010, I pur­chased tick­ets from oth­ers, in or­der to mis­lead FI­FA to be­lieve that I was not re­ceiv­ing tick­ets, be­cause I be­lieved that FI­FA would no longer sell tick­ets di­rect­ly to me."

De­spite the se­ri­ous­ness of the crimes be­ing ex­am­ined, there were light mo­ments.At one point, Daryan Warn­er strug­gled to read a state­ment set­ting out his crimes, prompt­ing the judge to in­ter­vene.

"Take your time,"he said. "Take a drink of wa­ter. Slow­ly and loud­ly. Chan­nel your in­ner Lord Vad­er, not your in­ner Woody Allen, okay? That's what I say all the time."

His broth­er, Dar­ryl, plead­ed guilty to mak­ing a fraud­u­lent mort­gage ap­pli­ca­tion and wire fraud. The deals were cru­cial to the U.S. De­part­ment of Jus­tice in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Dar­ryl ad­mit­ted try­ing to buy a con­do in Mia­ma for him­self, his fa­ther and his broth­er fraud­u­lent­ly.

Their fa­ther, Jack Warn­er, has been charged over al­leged cor­rup­tion at Fi­fa.

He has been ar­rest­ed and bailed in his na­tive Trinidad, and made a de­fi­ant TV broad­cast on Wednes­day night claim­ing he has an 'avalanche' of ev­i­dence he will re­veal.

Jack Warn­er quit his po­si­tion in FI­FA and as head of the Con­fed­er­a­tion of North, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean As­so­ci­a­tion Foot­ball (Con­ca­caf, which was more wide­ly known by its acronym) in the wake of bribery al­le­ga­tions in 2011.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion end­ed with his res­ig­na­tion. The hear­ings were con­duct­ed in a closed court and the tran­scripts sealed un­til now to al­low the in­ves­ti­ga­tion to con­tin­ue in se­cret, un­known to Fi­fa's high­er ech­e­lons.

His broth­er's guilty plea con­cerned the pur­chase of a $1m con­do in Mi­a­mi. He told the fed­er­al judge that he knew he would have been turned down for a mort­gage and made false state­ments.

He al­so ad­mit­ted mak­ing a se­ries of de­posits of less than $10,000 in banks with the in­ten­tion of dodg­ing fed­er­al re­port­ing rules which no­ti­fy the In­ter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice of any de­posits greater than $10,000, and de­posit­ed more than $100,000 in six months from Ju­ly to De­cem­ber 2011.

Both men are yet to be sen­tenced. Daryll, who is a US cit­i­zen, faces a max­i­mum sen­tence of 20 years, al­though it is like­ly to be sig­nif­i­cant­ly less be­cause of his co­op­er­a­tion with the fed­er­al au­thor­i­ties.

Daryan, who is not a US cit­i­zen, faces re­moval from the US, and a max­i­mum sen­tence of 20 years. Sim­i­lar­ly­it is like­ly to be sig­nif­i­cant­ly less be­cause of his co­op­er­a­tion with the fed­er­al au­thor­i­ties.

Source: Dai­ly Mail