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Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has been released on bail Friday after being detained for being charged in a U.S. corruption case.
The British media stated that Jack Warner was released in Trinidad and Tobago after paying a $395,000 bail.
After being discharged from the hospital where he was admitted for "exhaustion", British daily The Guardian reports, Warner went to a rally where he took a defiant tone.
"If I have been thieving FIFA money for 30 years, who gave me the money? How come he is not charged? Why only persons from Third World countries have been charged?" he asked according to The Guardian.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged Wednesday 14 defendants in a 47-count indictment with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses, “in connection with the defendants’ participation in a 24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer.”
The U.S. authority also unsealed guilty pleas of four individual defendants and two corporate defendants.
