Paris--Disgraced former FIFA vice president Jack Warner was accused Sunday of asking Egypt for a $7 million bribe for votes to host the 2010 World Cup, as allegations piled up against the man at the heart of the corruption scandal engulfing football's world body.
The BBC also claimed that the 72-year-old Trinidadian pocketed a $10 million payment made by South Africa through FIFA which was intended to pay for football development for the African diaspora in the Caribbean.
Warner, a former schoolteacher and Trinidadian justice minister who has been indicted by the US authorities on corruption charges, has denied all the allegations against him.
But he has emerged as a key figure in the scandal that erupted last month as one of 14 current or former FIFA officials and sports marketing executives accused by US prosecutors of taking part in a sweeping kickbacks scheme going back 20 years involving a total of $150 million in bribes.
AFP
