Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner will not face extradition to the U.S. to face bribery charges as part of a sweeping, decades-long corruption scandal which involved some of the soccer world's top brass, a court in Warner's home country of Trinidad and Tobago ruled on Tuesday.

Warner was accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribes to vote for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup. While corruption allegations against him date back to the 1980s, he was banned from the sport for life in 2015.

However, he will likely walk free, with the Caribbean nation's top court ruling on Tuesday that it would not comply with the U.S. extradition request. He is not facing any charges at home and has maintained his innocence.

The U.S. Department of Justice argued that Warner had enormous influenc

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