Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has resigned as Trinidad and Tobago's national security minister two days after a regional football group's ethics panel accused him and another official of fraud.<br /><br />In a brief statement Sunday night, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said that Warner offered to resign from her Cabinet and that she accepted his decision.<br />"I wish to thank Mr. Warner for his service to the government and people of Trinidad & Tobago," Persad-Bissessar said, adding that she has advised Trinidad's governor general to appoint another lawmaker to lead the security ministry.<br />Warner's resignation came shortly after an ethics panel of the Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Football, known as CONCACAF, released a report charging that Warner and a former secretary general of the group enriched themselves through fraud during their terms with the organization.<br />Warner has repeatedly dismissed the various allegations against him and denies any wrongdoin
