Bernie Ecclestone has had a heartening couple of days in court this week.<\/p>\n
The latest witness to appear in Munich for F1 chief executive’s bribery trial was a former colleague of the jailed Gerhard Gribkowsky.<\/p>\n
Gribkowsky’s credibility is a crucial element of the proceedings, as the former BayernLB risk officer was jailed for receiving Ecclestone’s $44 million, allegedly as a bribe to influence the sale of F1’s commercial rights.<\/p>\n
A BayernLB colleague, however, described some of what Gribkowsky routinely said as coming from “the fantasy world”.\u00a0 DPA news agency said the witness worked closely on F1 matters with Gribkowsky.<\/p>\n
The witness recalled a dinner at which Gribkowsky apparently declared: “I feel as though he (Ecclestone) sees me as an adopted son and wants to groom me as his formula one successor”.<\/p>\n
Another Gribkowsky tale told of an Ecclestone suitcase filled with $20 million, although subsequent calculations showed that it is impossible to fit that amount of cash in a suitcase.<\/p>\n
The BayernLB colleague explained: “Dr Gribkowsky sometimes had days when he told such things.\u00a0 These were the days that I had to switch off.”<\/p>\n
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