{"id":19694,"date":"2013-10-28T07:22:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19694"},"modified":"2013-10-28T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:22:36","slug":"ecclestone-court-action-to-begin-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-court-action-to-begin-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone court action to begin on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s attention will turn from Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s fourth title to the inside of a courtroom early this week.<\/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\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Reports say that while German prosecutors have not decided whether the bribery affair will go to criminal trial, a separate civil action will get underway in London on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg news agency said German prosecutors &#8220;may be watching for anything that will help their case&#8221;, as media company Constantin sues F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone for $171 million for the alleged bribing of jailed banker Gerhard Gribkowsky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not ideal, it would be better if it wasn&#8217;t happening, but we can&#8217;t change the court system,&#8221; Ecclestone, who is scheduled to appear and give evidence in the trial, said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Minardi team owner Paul Stoddart said he is backing the British magnate, who turns 83 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve not seen an ounce of credible evidence that proves he is guilty,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;F1 will be much poorer the day Bernie is not there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s attention will turn from Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s fourth title to the inside of a courtroom early this week. Reports say that while German prosecutors have not decided whether the bribery affair will go to criminal trial, a separate civil action will get underway in London on Tuesday. Bloomberg news agency said German prosecutors &#8220;may be &#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":[59,5262,5340,2638,4697,825],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694"}],"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=19694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19695,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions\/19695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}