Bernie Ecclestone’s defence got a boost on Tuesday, as the corruption trial continued in Munich. If found guilty of having bribed the jailed former F1 banker Gerhard Gribkowsky, the sport’s ...
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Gribkowsky told German intelligence of Ecclestone threats
Gerhard Gribkowsky contacted the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency or Bundesnachrichtendienst, when he claimed Bernie Ecclestone was threatening him. That is the latest bombshell to emerge this week from F1 ...
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 »Gribkowsky asked BayernLB boss for millions – report
Bernie Ecclestone was not the only man Gerhard Gribkowsky turned to as he sought to make his millions. That is the claim that emerged in a Munich court on Wednesday, ...
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 ...
Read More »Good week in court for Ecclestone
Bernie Ecclestone has had a heartening couple of days in court this week. The latest witness to appear in Munich for F1 chief executive’s bribery trial was a former colleague ...
Read More »Ecclestone, Gribkowsky ‘battled for F1 control’ – witness
Bernie Ecclestone and Gerhard Gribkowsky clashed over “control” of formula one. That was the testimony on Wednesday offered in court by investigative author Tom Bower, who in 2011 wrote a ...
Read More »Ecclestone desperate to cling to F1 power – witness
The man jailed for accepting Bernie Ecclestone’s alleged bribes depicted the F1 ‘supremo’ on Tuesday as someone desperate to cling to power. The corruption charges, playing out in a dramatic ...
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