{"id":13292,"date":"2011-08-01T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2011-08-01T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:02:36","slug":"briatore-involved-in-ecclestone-bribe-affair-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/briatore-involved-in-ecclestone-bribe-affair-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Briatore involved in Ecclestone bribe affair &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banned former F1 chief Flavio Briatore has been named as being also involved in the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery affair.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian, a friend and business partner of Bernie Ecclestone, was reportedly involved in the F1 chief executive&#8217;s payment of millions to jailed German banker Gribkowsky.<\/p>\n<p>The Seddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said Briatore, as well as a Swiss lawyer, helped Ecclestone get the money to Gribkowsky via a web of shell companies and fake consultancy contracts.<\/p>\n<p>And the report said four of Ecclestone&#8217;s lawyers &#8211; three in Geneva and one in London &#8211; have been subject to searches by prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old has said he was effectively blackmailed by Gribkowsky and argued that the amount paid to the former BayernLB risk manager was much less than $44m.<\/p>\n<p>APA news agency said the prosecutors have declined to comment on the latest reports.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned former F1 chief Flavio Briatore has been named as being also involved in the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery affair. The Italian, a friend and business partner of Bernie Ecclestone, was reportedly involved in the F1 chief executive&#8217;s payment of millions to jailed German banker Gribkowsky. The Seddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said Briatore, as well as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,5262,252,5340,2638],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13293,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions\/13293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}