Bernie Ecclestone remains at legal loggerheads with the Munich state bank BayernLB. When the sport’s supremo controversially yet successfully settled with German prosecutors for $100 million, he had at the ...
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Bank rejects Ecclestone’s compensation offer
Bernie Ecclestone’s legal troubles are not yet over. Before he ended his corruption trial in Munich by agreeing to pay $100 million to the Bavarian state, it emerged that the ...
Read More »German charity ‘surprised’ by $1m Ecclestone payment
Officials of a German children’s charity were completely surprised when it emerged Bernie Ecclestone would pay them $1 million. The payment to the Deutsche Kinderhospizstiftung, a children’s hospice foundation, is ...
Read More »Ecclestone to keep F1 job after $100m court deal – report
Bernie Ecclestone looks set to avoid jail and retain control of formula one. Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung is reporting on Saturday that the F1 chief executive has negotiated a US $100 ...
Read More »Ecclestone offers EUR 25m to settle bribery case
Bernie Ecclestone is willing to pay EUR 25 million to settle the corruption case, media reports said on Tuesday. The German news agency DPA said the F1 chief executive’s lawyers ...
Read More »Another witness backs Ecclestone’s bribery defence
Bernie Ecclestone’s run of good form in court continued on Wednesday. Already this week, as the F1 supremo’s trial resumed in Munich, the testimony of a former BayernLB official seemed ...
Read More »Ecclestone offered to pay to prevent trial
Bernie Ecclestone says he offered to pay more than $40 million to stop the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery affair. Writing in the Independent newspaper, F1 business journalist Christian Sylt said the ...
Read More »Witness supports Ecclestone’s blackmail defence
Bernie Ecclestone’s claim that he was blackmailed by Gerhard Gribkowsky got a boost in court this week. Gribkowsky has already been jailed in Germany for accepting the F1 supremo’s alleged ...
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