FIFA vice president Jack Warner is at the centre of a new scandal, as players for Trinidad and Tobago’s national football team, the Soca Warriors, have announced their decision to retire from international football. Team members accuse the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) of reneging on the contractual obligations it made to the team before the World Cup.

Nicolás Leoz, a FIFA executive member and president of the South American football confederation Conmebol, has been accused by Swiss magistrates of receiving bribes in the amount of almost 212.000 Swiss francs. The claim comes in a Swiss investigating magistrate’s report relating to the collapse of the sports marketing company ISL/ISMM.

FIFA vice president Jack Warner is expected to drop his threat of legal action against the authors of an auditing report and some FIFA officials, reports The Daily Telegraph. But when the story of Warner’s alleged illegal sale of 4,500 World Cup tickets broke earlier this month, he was all set to sue and claimed he had been the victim of a set-up.

New revelations by investigative reporter Andrew Jennings expose FIFA vice president Jack Warner as the greediest ticket tout during the World Cup. Jennings has obtained copies of confidential reports by auditors Ernst & Young that estimate that the Warner family could have cleared a profit of at least half a million British pounds on illegal sales of World Cup tickets.

Guy Drut, a French IOC member, seriously tarnished the reputation of the Olympic Movement when he was convicted in a corruption case in his home country, says IOC’s Ethics Commission. Nevertheless, after intervention by French president Jacques Chirac, Guy Drut can now continue his work on the Olympic Committee.

Only a week after the IOC Ethic’s Commission reprimanded the French IOC member Guy Drut for tarnishing the reputation of the Olympic Movement, the president of the French National Olympic Committee has also appeared in court on charges of corruption.

A Swiss court order prevents the public from knowing exactly which FIFA officials took bribes from the now bankrupt sports marketing company, ISL. But investigative reporter Andrew Jennings now claims to know who repaid a large amount of the bribes money to the insolvent ISL-estate: It was FIFA.

When FIFA’s Executive Committee starts work on a new Code of Ethics, it may consider stopping the practice of entrusting world cup tickets to officials from national football federations. It is a practice that appears to invite abuse, and according to media reports Ismail Bhamjee from Botswana is not the only one who has succumbed to the temptation of selling tickets on at inflated prices