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Bernie Ecclestone and German Law

SillybillySillybilly
in Other Football and Sports
On trial for bribery, Bernie is apparently able to exploit a loophole to "buy out" the case for £60 million on the basis (put simply) that it's all too much hassle. If accepted he would be found neither guilty nor innocent. It just all goes away. Now I have no idea and care even less whether Bernie is guilty or innocent, but isn't there a delicious irony in being able to buy off a bribery trial. You couldn't make it up.

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  • BlucherBlucher
    The ultimate 'rich man's charter' ...
  • HuskarisHuskaris
    I am pretty sure that it would be more or less the definition of irony. If only the Germans had a sense of humour they might understand it.
  • AlgarveaddickAlgarveaddick
    Only in this country! Oh... hang on...
  • soapy_jonessoapy_jones
    There's a reason why they are an industrial power house you know, they are "doers" and tend not to "faff about"

    Agree about the irony though.
  • ForeverAddicktedForeverAddickted
    Hang on... So he's on trial for Bribary yet is offering £60m to be cleared?

    Shouldnt the Germans just go... thank you Bernie you've just confirmed your guilty!!
  • c4fcdenmarkc4fcdenmark
    He fails the height test...
  • The_PresidentThe_President
    Drop in the ocean for him.
  • Stuart_the_RedStuart_the_Red
    Blucher said:

    The ultimate 'rich man's charter' ...

    It's a legal step open to anyone, not just to 'rich' people.
  • All_Thaid_UpAll_Thaid_Up
    Don't do it Bernie, it's sounds like entrapment!
  • Bryan_KynsieBryan_Kynsie
    Stuart the Red said:

    Blucher said:

    The ultimate 'rich man's charter' ...

    It's a legal step open to anyone, not just to 'rich' people.
    Might be open to you but personally I wouldnt have £60m lying about. It is, as Sillybilly said, somewhat ironic.
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  • AlgarveaddickAlgarveaddick
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    Stuart the Red said:

    Blucher said:

    The ultimate 'rich man's charter' ...

    It's a legal step open to anyone, not just to 'rich' people.
    Might be open to you but personally I wouldnt have £60m lying about. It is, as Sillybilly said, somewhat ironic.
    I think that was a joke too...
  • Covered EndCovered End
    Fookin ridiculous. He shells out £60M and says he's not guilty.
  • TelMc32TelMc32
    Covered End said:

    Fookin ridiculous. He shells out £60M and says he's not guilty.

    If he gives me £60M, I'll say he's not guilty too!! In the meantime...










    ...I'll say nothing at all as he obviously has decent expensive lawyers!!
  • dizzeedizzee
    I always knew he'd come good.
  • Exiled_AddickExiled_Addick
    This kind of shit makes me sick.
  • GranpaGranpa
    If you made this story up, everybody would say you were being stupid.
  • Stuart_the_RedStuart_the_Red
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    Stuart the Red said:

    Blucher said:

    The ultimate 'rich man's charter' ...

    It's a legal step open to anyone, not just to 'rich' people.
    Might be open to you but personally I wouldnt have £60m lying about. It is, as Sillybilly said, somewhat ironic.
    True, but then we are not likely to be charged with bribery to the same tune as Bernie, are we?
  • F-BlockerF-Blocker
    Apparently it's a law in the state of Bavaria (where he was charged/on trial) - not sure it applies to the whole of Germany
  • RizzoRizzo
    This is even more ridiculous than outrageously rich football clubs being punished for overspending by having to pay a fine.
  • AlgarveaddickAlgarveaddick
    Covered End said:

    Fookin ridiculous. He shells out £60M and says he's not guilty.

    Not technically true from what I understand. Apparently he is neither guilty nor not guilty, the case just isn't going to be pursued any further.

    I guess it just means that anyone saying he IS guilty cannot be sued for slander?
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  • c4fcdenmarkc4fcdenmark
    That's a lot of money for an 'innocent' man to fork out.
  • RizzoRizzo
    The court apparently saying that "The court did not consider a conviction overwhelmingly likely from the present point of view.". So if it looks like you're unlikely to get convicted, why would an innocent man offer to shell out £60m to end the trial. Whole thing stinks.
  • MacronateMacronate
    definitely innocent:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/28671472
  • soapy_jonessoapy_jones
    Anyone who has read Bernie's biography should never be allowed on the jury.
  • TelMc32TelMc32
    soapy_jones said:

    Anyone who has read Bernie's biography should never be allowed on the jury.

    Haven't read it, but I assume there wouldn't be a soul who wouldn't convict him.

    That said, I know a lot of people in the legal & accounting sector who were convinced that 'Arry Redknapp was guilty as hell...how wrong clever people can be hey!
  • cliveclive

    Bernie Ecclestone pleads guilty to fraud

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67088503
  • charltonkestoncharltonkeston
    If you are going to commit fraud and want to avoid the law, make it a big number. The 92 year old has strung this out for years but is now fed up  paying huge bills for advice and would rather pay an even larger sum to draw a line under it all. I have a tendency to believe he thought he wouldn't out live the investigations.
    Amazing fact, super wealthy people tend to have little or no understanding of their own finances but  manage to amass vast fortunes while squirreling away all over the worlds tax havens, whereas most of us plebs know to the penny where our money is and what our responsibilities are.
  • BlucherBlucher
    Odious little man. I remember him saying during that barmy Briatore period at QPR  with Briatore that “I usually leave at half time, as you can see how things are going to turn out.”
  • Doomer JonDoomer Jon
    Local boy. Lived in Bexleyheath as a kid - Pickford Close and Danson Road. 
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