Warner, who stepped down as CONCACAF President in 2011 after a "cash-for-votes" scandal, was accused on Friday (April 19), of tricking the body out of ownership of the $25.9 million (£17.1 million/€19.8 million) Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, which was built on land in Port-of-Spain owned by his companies

He is also facing an FBI probe over a separate issue.

"I have today accepted the offer of resignation of the Minister of National Security, Mr. Jack Warner from the Cabinet of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago," Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said in a statement.

Pressure on Warner to resign built up over the weekend after one of the major partners in Trinidad's four-member party coalition Government called for his dismissal.

Persad-Bissessar, who returned to Trinidad on Saturday (April 20) from visits to the United States and Canada, made the announcement after summoning her Cabinet to a meeting at her private residence yesterday.

Warner had left the meeting without speaking to reporters.

Jack Warner's resignation made front page headlines in Trinidad and Tobago

It later emerged that he had also resigned as chairman of United National Congress, the political party that Persad-Bissessar represents. 

But Warner remains the Member of Parliament for Chaguanas West.

CONCACAF's Congress in Panama was presented with a detailed report into allegations of financial mismanagement by Warner and former general secretary Chuck Blazer, based on documents and interviews with 38 people compiled by Sir David Simmons, the former Chief Justice of Barbados.

A delegate at the meeting in Panama had described Warner and Blazer as "white-collar thieves".

Warner had resigned all his football-related positions in 2011 and avoided facing a FIFA Ethics Commission inquiry relating to bribery allegations surrounding the body's Presidential election.

He was accused of helping Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar to bribe Caribbean soccer officials so they would back a bid by Bin Hamman to become FIFA's President.

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