{"id":22733,"date":"2014-07-29T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22733"},"modified":"2014-07-29T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T21:46:01","slug":"ecclestone-offers-eur-25m-to-settle-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-offers-eur-25m-to-settle-bribery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone offers EUR 25m to settle bribery case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone is willing to pay EUR 25 million to settle the corruption case, media reports said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-2\" width=\"424\" height=\"282\" \/>The German news agency DPA said the F1 chief executive&#8217;s lawyers made the proposal to pay the money to BayernLB, despite arguing the bank suffered no financial loss.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that the application was made in a statement to the Munich court on Tuesday, even though the lawyers argue that the prosecutors&#8217; case against Ecclestone is &#8220;highly questionable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the DPA report, Auto Motor und Sport on Tuesday claimed the lawyers are making the proposal because of how &#8220;extremely stressful&#8221; the case is to the 83-year-old Briton.<\/p>\n<p>The defense offer is reportedly valid until August 8, and the prosecution is said to be evaluating it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone is willing to pay EUR 25 million to settle the corruption case, media reports said on Tuesday. The German news agency DPA said the F1 chief executive&#8217;s lawyers made the proposal to pay the money to BayernLB, despite arguing the bank suffered no financial loss. The report added that the application was made &#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":[3332,59,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733"}],"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=22733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22734,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions\/22734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}