PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Embattled former FIFA executive and former National Security Minister, Jack Warner has claimed that he was involved in a plan to bury the alleged discovery of marijuana at the home of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar in the Philippines.

Warner, in a statement dated June 6, said he and former deputy commissioner of police Mervyn Richardson planned to bury the drug that was found on April 12, 2013, while the prime minister was in New York.

Warner – the leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) also named Gary Griffith, then adviser to Prime Minister and Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal as being part of the plan to ensure there was no criminal probe into the alleged marijuana discovery.

The Trinidad Express reports that a statement signed by a Justice of the Peace outlined how Richardson came to Parliament and told him about the alleged drug find.

Warner’s statement forms part of a dossier of documents and taped conversations he has promised to deliver to selected attorneys for safe-keeping to expose corruption in the Government.

Warner is currently on bail and will re-appear at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court on July 9.

He has indicated he will be contesting any request by the US to have him extradited to answer charges of racketeering and money laundering.

The indictment against Warner follows four years of investigations by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) authorities into allegations of “rampant and systemic” corruption and rich self-dealing by FIFA officials.