PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – An opposition legislator today called on Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs to launch an investigation to determine whether Trinidad and Tobago was used as a venue for the alleged payment of bribes to members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU).
Senator Fitzgerald Hinds, a former junior national security minister, told the Senate that the authorities, including the Comptroller of Customs must also investigate whether any person declared more than the stipulated amount foreign currency into the country.
“I am calling on Gibbs, the Commissioner of Police, don’t leave everything up to any international organization…since a crime may have been committed in Trinidad and Tobago,” Hinds said.
“I am calling upon the Comptroller of Customs to check the records to see whether large amounts of US currency was legally imported into Trinidad and Tobago without declaration.”
Football’s world governing body, FIFA, on Sunday pledged to investigate bribery allegations against its vice president, Austin Jack Warner, former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam and two CFU officials.
FIFA has temporarily suspending them from activity connected with the game. Warner and Bin Hammam have been accused of offering US$40,000 to national associations of the CFU at a meeting on May 10 and 11 here, in return for their votes in the FIFA presidential election. (CMC)
