{"id":13482,"date":"2011-08-24T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2011-08-24T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:31:51","slug":"briatore-in-russian-champagne-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/briatore-in-russian-champagne-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Briatore in Russian champagne scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Russians have scammed former F1 team boss Flavio Briatore to the tune of EUR 86,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Unione Sarda newspaper, they got off a superyacht and entered Briatore&#8217;s ultra-expensive Billionaire club in Sardinia, charging 90 bottles of EUR 900 Cristal champagne to a Russian oligarch&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now searching for the group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We trust our clients and there are some who choose not to settle their bills until the end of the summer,&#8221; Briatore&#8217;s spokeswoman Patrizia Spinelli told the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a very unfortunate exception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police investigator Giulio Brandanu told The Guardian: &#8220;We have seen people here skip out on drinks bills before, but never this much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Russians have scammed former F1 team boss Flavio Briatore to the tune of EUR 86,000. According to the Unione Sarda newspaper, they got off a superyacht and entered Briatore&#8217;s ultra-expensive Billionaire club in Sardinia, charging 90 bottles of EUR 900 Cristal champagne to a Russian oligarch&#8217;s account. Police are now searching for &#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":[5262,252,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482"}],"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=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13483,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions\/13483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}