For­mer vice pres­i­dent of FI­FA Jack Warn­er laughed off re­ports yes­ter­day that he was tak­en in­to cus­tody by US Mar­shals.

Sev­er­al posts on so­cial me­dia sites claimed the for­mer Fed­er­a­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion ex­ec­u­tive was be­ing ex­tra­dit­ed.

But when con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Warn­er re­mind­ed re­porters, “To­day is April Fools’!”

Warn­er, who al­so held posts as na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter and work and trans­port min­is­ter un­der the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment, said he was re­lax­ing qui­et­ly with his fam­i­ly. He said he was in good spir­its and en­joy­ing the down­time with those clos­est to him.

Warn­er was banned for life from foot­ball by FI­FA fol­low­ing a cor­rup­tion scan­dal that em­broiled the game’s world gov­ern­ing body in 2015.

In May of that year, he was in­dict­ed on 29 cor­rup­tion charges by US au­thor­i­ties, who re­quest­ed his ex­tra­di­tion af­ter an ar­rest war­rant was is­sued for him and oth­er FI­FA of­fi­cials.

Warn­er was one of 14 top FI­FA of­fi­cials and cor­po­rate ex­ec­u­tives to be ac­cused of cor­rup­tion, fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing while he was the FI­FA vice pres­i­dent.

Warn­er was im­pli­cat­ed in nu­mer­ous cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions dat­ing back to the 1980s.

On May 29, 2011 - Warn­er and Mo­hammed bin Ham­mam were pro­vi­sion­al­ly sus­pend­ed by the FI­FA Ethics Com­mit­tee pend­ing the out­come of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion of cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions against them.