BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – As many as 20 Caribbean Football Union federations could snub the start of bribery investigations, scheduled to be conducted in Miami today and Wednesday.
International media reports quoted sources as saying that the majority of the federations could stay away from the series of planned interviews and have a meeting of their own to discuss the situation.
FIFA have hired a company headed by ex-FBI head Louis Freeh to investigate allegations that CFU federations took cash bribes in exchange for votes for last week’s FIFA presidential elections.
The allegations have implicated CONCACAF and CFU president Jack Warner and former FIFA presidential candidate and Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam.
CFU, the governing body for Caribbean football, has 25 federations in its fold.
One federation apparently sent a letter to FIFA expressing their displeasure with Freeh heading the investigation, contending it contained an inherent American bias.
CONCACAF’s American general secretary Chuck Blazer collaborated with the US-based law firm Collins and Collins on the report to FIFA that initiated the investigation and led to the suspension of Warner and Bin Hammam pending the imminent investigation.
The letter, quoted by international media, called on for a “truly independent investigator and secure a neutral venue for the interview of any Caribbean Football Union member other than the United States of America.”
Blazer has rejected the charges of bias.
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