MILLIONS of dollars in funds, including those earmarked as aid for Haiti, remain unaccounted for, and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation has said that it plans to sue former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner to recover them.

Derek Ali, attorney for the soccer federation, told a judge that he planned to file a lawsuit and accused Warner of not releasing the audited accounts. High Court Judge Devindra Rampersad ordered Ali to send Warner a protocol letter advising him of the federation’s intentions.

The federation has said that Warner controlled a bank account in its name that was set to receive US$750,000 pledged by FIFA and South Korean soccer head Chung Mong-joon toward soccer rebuilding projects in Haiti.

Haitian officials recently told Britain’s Sunday Times that they received only US$60,000, and FIFA said it was temporarily freezing its funding to Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad’s soccer federation recently acknowledged that it had “surrendered its authority” to Warner, who had served as their special advisor and resigned last year in the face of a bribery probe.