PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The extradition case of former FIFA vice president Austin “Jack” Warner was adjourned to September 21 with the former national security minister questioning the delay by Attorney General Garvin Nicholas in signing the necessary documents to proceed with the matter.

“We have an AG and if he can’t sign it, because of bias, he can delegate someone to sign it. Delegate someone, if because you’re bias and if because you owe me money and if of course you have a lot of pre-trial publicity and you can’t sign it, then give it to somebody to sign.

“The law provides for that. You can delegate it but you see the fact is I want to take them on. I want to take them on before the election but they want to take me on after the election,” Warner told reporters.

Nicholas, who is a candidate in the September 7 general election, has until September 16 to sign the Authority to Proceed.

Warner, 72, had been released on TT$2.5 million (One TT dollar =US$0.16) bail when he made his first court appearance on May 27.

He is charged with 12 offences related to racketeering, corruption and money laundering allegedly committed in the jurisdiction of the United States and Trinidad and Tobago, dating as far back as 1990.

US law enforcement authorities earlier this year arrested a number of FIFA officials as part of the probe.