PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner won a decade-long court battle on Tuesday against being extradited to the U.S. to face corruption charges in a bribery scandal involving football's world governing body.

Trinidad and Tobago's high court permanently stayed extradition proceedings against Warner, 82, who faces racketeering and bribery charges in the United States.

Warner was one of 14 people named in a 47-count indictment by U.S. authorities in May 2015. He had been fighting extradition since.

His fight went as far as the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, which serves as Trinidad and Tobago's highest court. In November 2022, the London court dismissed Warner's appeal against extradition, effectively clearing the way for him to be sent to th

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