Buoyed by the end of his legal troubles, Bernie Ecclestone says he is now determined to never step down as F1 chief executive. Having turned 84 this year, the Briton ...
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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 corruption ‘acquittal’ set for Tuesday
Bernie Ecclestone is expected to put the corruption scandal behind him on Tuesday and return full-time to formula one. The sport’s chief executive has been caught up in a German ...
Read More »Ecclestone ‘upset’ with witness on Wednesday
According to an observer reporting for the Austrian press agency APA, Bernie Ecclestone was “visibly upset” on Wednesday. The F1 chief executive was back in court, listening to a witness ...
Read More »Ecclestone says Gribkowsky payment an ‘insurance policy’
Bernie Ecclestone on Tuesday told his corruption trial in Munich that he made a $44 million payment to avoid bankruptcy. Prosecutors allege the F1 chief executive paid Gerhard Gribkowsky so ...
Read More »CVC’s Mackenzie backs Ecclestone in court
F1 owner CVC’s chief Donald Mackenzie on Wednesday gave Bernie Ecclestone a boost. Mackenzie, CVC’s co-founder and chairman, has not always seen eye-to-eye with F1’s controversial ‘supremo’, and has even ...
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 ...
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