FIFA vice-president Austin Jack Warner’s financial dealings come under scrutiny today at the Offshore Alert Financial Due Diligence Conference in Miami, USA. Warner stands accused of fraud by award winning British investigative journalist and filmmaker, Andrew Jennings, who delivers his presentation ’Corruption in Soccer’ at 4.15pm, local.

The central accusation against Warner is a controversial cheque used to pay Trinidad’s football team, reported Trinidad’s Express newspaper. Warner and the club’s president both denied knowledge of the payment which Jennings alleges constitutes improper use of funds and evidence of corporate fraud.

The UK's Times on Monday also featured an article on Warner’s battle with the Trinidad and Tobago football team, the ‘Soca Warriors’, over what is said to be monies owed to them from the 2006 World Cup campaign. Warner says he has nothing to say on the subject.

Warner, the chairman of Trinidad's opposition (UNC) party, is standing for election on May 24. Last Friday, Warner claimed that Jennings was a discredited journalist and a tool of Trinidad’s ruling People’s National Movement (PNM).  Jennings has denied these accusations.

Jennings says that even more explosive revelations will be divulged during the presentation today. He is expected to reveal findings of his investigation on FIFA-engineered corruption in world football on a mafia-like scale, by presenting evidence of bribery and corruption that will focus in large measure on the organisation’s senior officials, including president Sepp Blatter.

Last week, South Africa’s Institute for Security Studies (ISS) launched "Conflicting Interests and the 2010 World Cup" - a book on possible corruption and irregularities surrounding the World Cup in South Africa. Jennings contributed a chapter, “Player and Referee”, in which he accuses Blatter of refusing to reveal his earnings, bonuses, expenses and other perks and alleges that Warner’s son, Daryan, was awarded all fast food and beverage contracts for five stadiums during the under-17 world tournament in Trinidad in 2001.

Jennings says FIFA’s trade in World Cup tickets is a clandestine industry, a labyrinth of illicit transactions between touts, middlemen, officials at many levels and corporations. In 2006 Jennings alleged that Warner had diverted the majority of World Cup tickets, issued to the Trinidad & Tobago Federation, to his Simpaul travel company and, breaching FIFA’s rules, was selling them in travel packages.

Despite being admonished by FIFA’s ethics committee, Blatter later announced that Warner had no case to answer.

Last year, EUTN reported that Match Hospitality, which has exclusive rights to offer hospitality packages to corporate clients for this year’s World Cup, includes as one of its shareholders a business headed by Philippe Blatter, the FIFA president’s nephew.

Today's Financial Times reports that FIFA expects this year's World Cup to generate a net gain of $1bn in income thanks to commercial deals but is eager not to call it a profit.