Derek Achong

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Dwayne Gibbs has con­firmed that there is no po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of bribery re­lat­ing to sus­pend­ed FI­FA vice pres­i­dent and Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er. Gibbs made the state­ment yes­ter­day at a press con­fer­ence af­ter a meet­ing with mem­bers of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion at the com­mis­sion's sec­re­tari­at, Queen Street, Port-of-Spain. Gibbs said: "The po­lice are not present­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ing the al­le­ga­tions.

Un­til we (po­lice) re­ceive in­for­ma­tion that sug­gests that a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion should be ini­ti­at­ed, we will not in­ves­ti­gate this. "There have been a lot of al­le­ga­tions com­ing through the press. We do not need in­ves­ti­gate things that are not tan­gi­ble." Gibbs' re­sponse comes af­ter calls from Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds for a crim­i­nal probe to be con­duct­ed in­to al­le­ga­tions against Warn­er and oth­ers in­volved.

On May 29, Warn­er was sus­pend­ed from all foot­ball- re­lat­ed du­ties by FI­FA's Ethics Com­mit­tee af­ter bribery al­le­ga­tions were made stem­ming from a meet­ing of Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) of­fi­cials and for­mer FI­FA pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Mo­hamed bin Ham­man at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel, Port-of-Spain, be­tween May 10 and 11. Dur­ing In­di­an Ar­rival Day cel­e­bra­tions in his Ch­agua­nas West con­stituen­cy on Sun­day, Warn­er, who had promised to re­veal e-mail be­tween him and re­cent­ly re-elect­ed FI­FA pres­i­dent Sepp Blat­ter that would ex­on­er­ate him from the al­le­ga­tions, failed to do so on the ad­vice of his lawyers.