FIFA will attempt to recoup millions of dollars taken in the corruption scandal which rocked the world of football.
Documents submitted to the US authorities have disclosed that football's world governing body plans to recover money diverted from the sport illegally through bribery, kickbacks and corrupt schemes carried out by former FIFA members and other officials.
Those same papers reveal the extent of corruption which took place at the top of world football and outline that bribes were paid for votes in bids for the 1998 and 2010 World Cups.
CONCACAF president Warner, a former FIFA vice-president, and Chuck Blazer, who was general secretary of the confederation representing North, Central America and Caribbean football, are said to have received a $10 million dollar bribe from South Africa for World Cup votes in 2010.
An American investigation exposed widespread corruption in world football and FIFA says in its Request for Restitution to the US attorney's office and the US probation office for the Eastern District of New York that it is a "victimised institution".
Warner, Blazer and Jeffrey Webb, who became president of CONCACAF in 2012, are among 41 defendants indicted in the ongoing investigation by the US Department of Justice that FIFA plans to seek damages from.
"The convicted defendants abused the positions of trust they held at FIFA and other international football organisations and caused serious and lasting damage to FIFA, its member associations and the football community," new FIFA president Gianni Infantino said in a statement.
"The monies they pocketed belonged to global football and were meant for the development and promotion of the game. FIFA as the world governing body of football wants that money back and we are determined to get it no matter how long it takes.
"The defendants diverted this money not just from FIFA but from players, coaches and fans worldwide who benefit from the programmes that FIFA runs to develop and promote football.
"These dollars were meant to build football fields, not mansions and pools; to buy football kits, not jewellery and cars; and to fund youth player and coach development, not to underwrite lavish lifestyles for football and sports marketing executives.
"When FIFA recovers this money, it will be directed back to its original purpose: for the benefit and development of international football."
FIFA accepts the amount lost during the corruption scandal is likely to increase as the investigation continues.
The US government has already announced forfeiture amounts that should cover FIFA's claims for damages.
In the documents, FIFA admits for the first time that Warner and Blazer were bribed by South Africa for their World Cup votes.
"It is now apparent that multiple members of FIFA's executive committee abused their positions and sold their votes on multiple occasions," the papers state.
"Defendant Jack Warner, together with his co-conspirators Charles (Chuck) Blazer (who has admitted his crimes and pleaded guilty), defendant Warner's son Daryan Warner, and other co-conspirators not named in the Superseding Indictment, engineered a 10 million dollar pay-off in exchange for executive committee votes regarding where the 2010 FIFA World Cup would be hosted."
FIFA said the scheme "built off Warner's corrupt vote in 1992 for Morocco to host the 1998 FIFA World Cup". That tournament was eventually staged in France.
Twelve years later Warner and Blazer, who by 2004 also had a vote as an executive committee member, were alleged in FIFA's restitution request to be offered a one million dollar bribe by the Morocco bid committee to host the 2010 World Cup.
But FIFA says Warner, who is still fighting extradition to the US from his Trinidad home, and his family had already established close ties to South Africa during their failed bid to host the 2006 tournament.
Warner's son, the documents state, had organised a series of friendly matches among CONCACAF teams to be played in South Africa and had received a briefcase with $10,000 in cash from a high-ranking South African official in Paris.
It is said that he immediately returned to Trinidad and Tobago to give the money to his father.
"Ultimately, given defendant Warner's strong illicit ties to the South African bid committee, the South Africans offered a more attractive bribe of $10million in exchange for Warner's, Blazer's, and a third executive committee member's votes," says the document.
"Warner and his co-conspirators lied to FIFA about the nature of the payment, disguising it as support for the benefit of the 'African Diaspora' in the Caribbean region, when in reality it was a bribe.
"They disguised and funnelled the bribe money through the financial accounts of FIFA, member associations, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup local organising committee.
"At the time of the scheme, Warner was a member of the FIFA executive committee, a FIFA vice president, and the president of both CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Union, which had 31 member associations in its ranks.
"Blazer was also a member of FIFA's executive committee, at times a member of FIFA's marketing and television committees, and the general secretary of CONCACAF.
"They breached the fundamental duties they owed to FIFA, CFU, and CONCACAF and stole 10 million dollars."
Webb's behaviour is also highlighted in the 22-page request with the former president of the Cayman Islands Football Association accused of taking a three million dollars bribe over the sale of World Cup media rights.
The FIFA documents says: "Webb's cut found its way to bank accounts in Georgia to enable Webb to purchase a small mansion and install a swimming pool."
