{"id":18256,"date":"2013-05-11T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18256"},"modified":"2013-05-11T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T13:28:32","slug":"ecclestone-to-be-charged-for-bribery-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-to-be-charged-for-bribery-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone to be charged for bribery &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Munich prosecutors could be set to formally charge Bernie Ecclestone for bribery, the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Bernie-Ecclestone-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The German report said authorities have now completed an investigation into the 82-year-old F1 chief executive&#8217;s payment of millions to jailed F1 banker Gerhard Gribkowsky, and could publish the outcome this month.<\/p>\n<p>If the court accepts the indictment, the trial would reportedly begin later in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Munich prosecutors, and Ecclestone&#8217;s lawyers, declined to comment to Suddeutsche Zeitung.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported on Friday that Gribkowsky has dropped the appeal against his eight-year sentence, having been convicted of receiving $44 million from Ecclestone amid the sale of the sport to CVC some years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munich prosecutors could be set to formally charge Bernie Ecclestone for bribery, the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reports. The German report said authorities have now completed an investigation into the 82-year-old F1 chief executive&#8217;s payment of millions to jailed F1 banker Gerhard Gribkowsky, and could publish the outcome this month. If the court accepts the indictment, &#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":[2120,3],"tags":[59,2637,5262,5340,2638],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18256"}],"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=18256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18257,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18256\/revisions\/18257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}