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Ecclestone offered to pay to prevent Munich trial
Bernie Ecclestone
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he offered to pay more than $40 million to stop the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery affair.
Writing in the Independent newspaper, Formula 1 business journalist Christian Sylt said the money Ecclestone used to pay the jailed banker was funded by his commission for the sale of BayernLB's commercial rights.
Prosecutors allege Ecclestone was bribing Gribkowsky, but the 83-year-old Formula 1 ‘supremo' says the jailed German was in fact extorting him. Either way, Ecclestone admits he offered to pay the money back.
'I don't know why I offered to pay back the commission,' he said. 'Early on we said (we will do it) if that is what is...
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