JAKARTA - Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner won a decade-long legal battle on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, to fight extradition to the United States (US) to face corruption charges in the bribery scandal involving the world football body.
The Tokyo and Tobago High Courts have permanently suspended the extradition process against Warner, 82, which faces charges of extortion and bribery in the United States.
Warner is one of 14 people mentioned in the 47 articles indictment by US authorities in May 2015. He has been battling extradition since then.
His struggle even reached the Judicial Committee of the Advisory Council in London, which served as the highest courts of Tokyo and Tobago. In November 2022, the London Court rejected Warner's appeal for extradition, which effectively paved the way for him to be deported to the US.
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However, on September 12, 2025, Warner's lawyers argued that there was no formal extradition agreement between stratum and Tobago and the US. Lawyers say such an agreement is necessary for Warner's extradition.
A state lawyer, who recently took over the case, did not oppose the argument.
On Tuesday, Judge Karen Reid ruled that the extradition process was flawed due to the absence of an official extradition treaty.
After the verdict, Warner told The Associated Press that he felt it had been justified and justice had been upheld.
"I will never be able to regain my lost reputation, as has happened to me."
"My life can now restart, but it's 10 years late," said Warner.
Warner has faced many corruption charges stemming from his term at FIFA. In 2020, the US Department of Justice's indictment accused Warner of accepting a bribe of $5 million to vote for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup, an offer he won.
Warner was forced out of FIFA in 2011 for a bribery scandal, but he denied any wrongdoing. He also previously served as minister of government and members of Parliament in Tokyo and Tobago.
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