Heads are well and truly rolling and some big boys are getting involved as the FIFA circus rolls on.
The name Jack Warner has been thrown around a fair bit in the past week or so, especially here on our shores where he was the focal point of SAFA’s $10 million payment currently under investigation. Now his days as a free man look numbered, with Interpol issuing a red notice for Warner’s arrest on a range of charges including racketeering, conspiracy and corruption. This from EWN:
Red notices are one of the ways in which Interpol informs its member countries that an arrest warrant has been issued for an individual by a judicial authority and seeks the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful action.
A red notice is not an international arrest warrant, and no country is compelled to arrest the subject of a red notice.
So why do we say he is going to be arrested when a red notice doesn’t stipulate that clearly?
The individuals concerned are wanted by national jurisdictions and Interpol’s role is to assist national police forces in identifying or locating those individuals with a view to their arrest and extradition.
Ah, first Interpol finds your whereabouts and then the FBI goes to town. Along with Warner the Paraguayan Nicolas Leoz, a former FIFA executive committee member, and four corporate executives were also served with their red notices, a clear indicator that the FBI are broadening their investigation and readying themselves to exert some real pressure on those involved in the murky underbelly of FIFA corruption
[source:ewn]
