If international auditing firm KPMG had any concerns about the vast flows of sponsorship money going out of the bank accounts of one of its client, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF), to an agent company created and controlled by the client’s special adviser Jack Warner, it is not at all apparent in the unqualified statement covering three years of audited accounts the firm signed off on in 2008.
Evidence unearthed by this newspaper revealed that the national football federation, its agent company—LOC Germany 2006—and special adviser Warner, the man who set up the rogue company, were allowed to operate in a zone of impunity by both its conflicted accountant, Kenny Rampersad, and its auditor, KPMG. LOC Germany, Warner himself and private companies in which National Security Minister Warner had an interest were allowed without challenge, sanction or a note to any of the accounts, to funnel tens of millions of dollars out of TTFF’s bank accounts.
