Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has dismissed bribery accusations around the host nation election for World Cup tournaments, including the 2006 edition in Germany.
"I have never been open for bribery. No one ever offered me money, including the Germans," Warner told Saturday's edition of Der Spiegel news magazine.
Warner, of Trinidad and Tobago and a former president of the region's confederation CONCACAF, is one of 14 people indicted in an American probe into corruption in the sport, and faces extradition to the US.
There have been bribery allegations around the election of the 1998 (France) and 2010 (South Africa) hosts, and Swiss authorities are also investigating the election of the 2018 (Russia) and 2022 (Qatar) hosts.
German football federation president Wolfgang Niersbach and the then interior minister (including sports) Otto Schily have dismissed corruption speculation around the choice of Germany for the 2006 tournament.
The affair has rocked the ruling body FIFA and prompted president Joseph Blatter to announce his resignation at an extraordinary FIFA congress expected to take place in December.
Warner, 72, has been mentioned in connection with various cases but he has protested his innocence.
"I'm not aware of having done anything wrong," he told Der Spiegel. "Was it corruption when (US President Barack) Obama invited me for a meal? Or (Russian President Vladimir) Putin? You do each other a favour among powerful men, that is not corruption."
