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€100,000,000 but he isn't guilty, oh no siree he is just a generous little scamp 🙁
What a joke
But he's offering to pay, to settle a bribery hearing.
*boom*
From The Statesman...
Under Bavarian state law, a trial of the nature of Ecclestone's can be concluded if the accused makes a payment to a non-profit making organisation, or the treasury. Such an offer does not imply any guilt on behalf of the accused. Ecclestone's lawyers made the offer believing the state defence team's case to be, in their words, 'highly questionable', and with the trial proving 'burdensome' on their client.
Nice that the law allows the rich to throw money at a problem and make it go away!
I like it...a self fulfilling court settlement - when's he getting tried for bribing the court?
Somewhat ironic...
I seem to recall that Jan Ulrich did the same thing to make certain drugs charges go away. It is a terrible state of law that allows the rich to directly buy their way out of trouble, it is nearly as bad throughout most of the western world, where wealth and power clearly have such an impact on law, but to formalise it in such a way beggars belief.
My irony meter just blew up...and it went up to 11 😡
He'll probably find a way of making it tax deductable as well
But he's offering to pay, to settle a bribery hearing.*boom - boom*
Basil Brush style.
You honestly couldn't make this stuff up, so the guy he originally bribed has his career ruined and is locked up for 8+ years. Bernie on the other hand waltzes away and just puts the price of tickets up again to compensate!
Bernie...I liked him when he was at Brabham. Why couldn't he have simply been pensioned off when the team folded?
Doesnt he get £10million a month for life, from his ex-wifes Bambino Trust that he "gave" her before the divorce which contains all the F1 commercial rights - so in 10 months he'll back to where he was before - instead of 10 years in jail.
ahhh the rich!
To add insult to injury he's suggesting they use the money to build an F1 track. Cheeky wee ****
do you think the old git walks around with a brown envelope in his back pocket with Mr Death written on it?
I never expected him to get done for it to be honest....
do you think the old git walks around with a brown envelope in his back pocket with Mr Death written on it?
Nope, negotiations were completed a loooong time ago for that one.
court case about a £20m bribe that kept him in control of F1, a £60m payment will now drop the court case and.....
keep him in control of F1
awesome work
Seems Win Win to me.
Germany gets EUR100m and everyone knows he's guilty.
The opposite would've been a court case where (eventually) he may of been found guilty and (possibly) locked up at the countries' expense.
Come the nuclear armageddon the Earth will be ruled by cockroaches and Bernie Ecclestone.
A vile little 'man' with a particularly vile dose of small man syndrome.
I don't think I could ever tire of punching his smug little face.
a bribe to settle a bribe trial. irony.
Pretty diabolical that he is allowed to do this. It's been quite clear all along he has been guilty as far as I am concerned, this has clearly been his strategy to settle with no conviction if he had to.
One does need to understand the German system though. There you are able to negotiate your taxes, ie the tax rate is x% but how about I pay y% (less) otherwise I'll live abroad.
One does need to understand the German system though. There you are able to negotiate your taxes, ie the tax rate is x% but how about I pay y% (less) otherwise I'll live abroad.
No you (or they) are not. What they have done in recent years is had an amnesty for those hiding money abroad to come forward and pay their back taxes without being punished. This has been kind of linked with the information leaked from swiss banks which created a real fear that they could actually be caught. Some have even messed up that opportunity and missed the amnesty, ie that bayern munich director and friend of Merckle.
Embarrassing
Obnoxious little turd. Sorry about that I just trod in something.
For the sake of balance, I thoroughly enjoyed his rendition of "Chicken Town".
Plus he was ace in Dr Who.
If anyone wants to give me £60,000,000 to go away I'm prepared to listen to your proposal
Outrageous - but no massive surprise
We all know that this type of thing goes on - but at least its in the open now
Personally, I have massive respect for the man - 83 years old, runs the most viewed annual sports event on the planet with an iron fist and like Teflon - nothing sticks!
The guy is a legend - dodgy as hell - but a little dwarf legend 🙂
Just highlights another catastrophic error by Blair - he should've got way more than a million off Bernie. Or maybe he did...
You just have to laugh 😆
So much for Germanic efficiency!
Dunno what his missus sees in him.
Perhaps get him to a video at the Playboy mansion? That seems a pretty crime these days...
So much for Germanic efficiency!
Seems quite a pragmatic, efficient solution to me.
It's disgusting. Not sure which is worse, that a self proclaimed innocent man isn't prepared to prove he is innocent but is quite happy to pay a crazy amount of money to make it all go away. Or that German law has a provision for such a person.
Maybe when you are in your 80's and a billionaire freedom is paramount. But the fact he is paying them off just goes to show how corrupt and hypocritical the system is.