Jack initiates audit of Antigua expenses

ST. JOHN’S: Football’s world governing body FIFA will conduct an independent audit of their  1999-2000 financial assistance programme to the Antigua Football Association, officials said.

The audit was requested by Antigua’s football  association, after some members accused their  president, Ralph Potter, and general secretary, Chet Greene, of not accounting for all programme  expenditures. “I have not been involved in any improprieties whatsoever,” Potter said on Friday, and accused his detractors of “vying for the leadership” of the Antigua Football Association. Greene also said he is innocent of the accusations. In January, FIFA’s vice president, Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago, said he would ask FIFA to suspend funding to several regional associations because he said they were not using the money wisely. Warner is also head of CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Association. Auditors will contact the Antigua association “directly in the next few days to arrange a date and discuss other details,” FIFA’s General-secretary Urs Linsi said in a Feb. 12 letter. The 1999-2000 programme involved Eastern Caribbean $2.7 million (US$1 million) in funds for technical development and administration.