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Blake sues jailed Watson for $100k legal fees loan
Canover Watson (left) and Bruce Blake (CNS): Bruce Blake, a former vice president of the Cayman Islands Football Association, is suing his one-time close friend and business associate, Canover Watson, a former treasurer of CIFA, for $100,000 that he claims he loaned him for his legal fees back in 2014. Blake said he had an oral agreement with Watson and sent him the money in November that year,…
Watson accuses prosecutor of hidden conflict
Canover Watson exits the courthouse (file photo) (CNS): Canover Watson has filed a formal complaint against the crown lawyer who was part of the team that prosecuted him and Bruce Blake in the CONCACAF football fraud case. Watson, a former businessman, was convicted in 2022 and jailed last year for a long list of offences. But he claims the case was politically motivated and Toyin Salako was…
Watson's jail time cut by year, conviction stands
Canover Watson exits the courthouse (file photo) (CNS): Canover Watson will be serving twelve months less in jail than expected after the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal cut his eight-year term to seven last week in relation to his conviction in a $1.5 million CONCACAF fraud. However, his appeal against conviction was rejected. CICA President Sir John Golding said Watson’s convictions for fraud…
Webb sentence hearing postponed again
Webb sentence hearing postponed again
Jeffrey Webb, former FIFA vice president
(CNS): Jeff Webb, the former Cayman Islands Football Club and CONCACAF president who was charged in the 2015 FIFA scandal, has secured another delay in his sentencing hearing in New York for what is estimated to be the eleventh time. It is already clear that the one-time local football hero, who has handed over millions of dollars to the US authorities…
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CIFA accounts reveal fraud allegations
CIFA accounts reveal fraud allegations
CIFA headquarters, Grand Cayman
(CNS): An audit of the Cayman Islands Football Association by Grant Thornton has revealed some details of the alleged fraud perpetrated against the local football body by former executives. In one of three audits of CIFA’s books, which the current president recently said would not be made public, former CIFA president Jeffery Webb and his one time business…
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Webb sentencing deferred for seventh time
Webb sentencing deferred for seventh time
Jeffrey Webb, former FIFA vice president
(CNS): Cayman’s fallen football hero, Jeff Webb, who was convicted of racketeering offences relating to his time as president of the regional football body CONCACAF, has managed to postpone his sentence for the seventh time, according to information from the US court in New York dealing with the case. Webb has already given up over $6.7 million in…
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$24M fine for marketing firm that bribed Webb
$24M fine for marketing firm that bribed Webb
Jeffrey Webb
(CNS): Spanish sports media company, Imagina, which was caught up in the FIFA corruption scandal, having paid $3 million in bribes to Jeffrey Webb from the Cayman Islands, has been ordered to pay $24 million in fines and restitution by a New York judge after its affiliate company in the US pleaded guilty to bribery charges. A lawyer for the Florida-based affiliate admitted in court…
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Watson ordered to hand over $900k
(CNS): Canover Watson has been ordered to pay CI$900,000 to the Cayman authorities by a Grand Court judge under the Proceeds of Crime Law. Following a brief hearing on Thursday morning, the former chair of the Health Services Authority, who was convicted of fraud and corruption offences in relation to the CarePay scandal, was told he had six months to hand over more than US$1 million based on his…
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