FIFA’s disgraced vice-president Jack Warner faces a fight to avoid expulsion from soccer’s world governing body after a report from accounting firm Ernst & Young identified the Trinidad and Tobago official as having sold World Cup tickets at three times their face value. The E&Y report can be viewed at www.transparencyinsport.org. In a report to FIFA, the accounting firm stated that Warner’s tickets “were transferred or resold into the secondary market in breach of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany ticketing general terms and conditions.” This is the second such outing of a FIFA executive for reselling World Cup tickets for profit. During the World Cup, Ismail Bhamjee of Botswana was sent home for the same thing. FIFA decided to investigate the Warner incident after the boss of a Swiss travel firm complained that he had not received a number of World Cup tickets he paid 400 euros each for. The tickets were purchased from a Florida-based agency called Kick Sports, but E&Y discovered that Warner was the actual source. Apparently Warner bought 180 tickets on his credit card at a face value of 100 euros each; they were then bought by the travel firm boss for 400 euros a piece through the Florida agency.
