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Will Bernie be going to court?
On Wednesday the Munich Regional Court announced that it had charged Formula One's boss Bernie Ecclestone with paying a £28.9m ($44m) bribe in connection with the sale of the sport to current owner, the private equity firm CVC, in 2006. In the wake of the announcement Ecclestone embarked on a whirlwind of interviews telling many media outlets that he isn't concerned by the situation and that it doesn't affect his position. It didn't stop the inevitable flood of error-ridden reports predicting the end of F1 as we know it.As Pitpass pointed out back in May, the German legal system is very different to the one in the UK. When someone is charged with a criminal offence such as bribery in...
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