Bernie Ecclestone charged with fraud over assets worth £400m

[ambulancekidd]

Why do people who are near the end of their lives & rolling in money play games like this?
At this rate if found guilty he is likely to end his days in prison. Weird huh.

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[Jim]

After hearing him big up Putin I smiled when I read this. We should send his fine to president Zelensky

 

[Phill D]

may be thats why he was being nice to Putin, he may be looking to spend his last years in Moscow...

 

[Figaro]

He's a complete fool and deserves everything they throw at him.
Most hoped he'd disappear into oblivion once out of F1 but he just can't help himself.
He should know better at his age.

 

[PaulyP]

I didn’t read the whole thing but noticed he lives with his third wife, he’s 91 and has a 2 year old son, wonder who helped him out with that

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[ambulancekidd]

After hearing him big up Putin I smiled when I read this. We should send his fine to president Zelensky

Me too Jim.

 

[chaser]

Just a matter of scale isn't it, is he really any happier with three billion that he has to avoid tax on than any one just jogging along on three thousand.

 

[Silver-Fox]

And who really believes anything will happen to him

 

[Gina M]

And he would "take a bullet for Putin"

Gina

 

[vzac]

He's always been arrogant. If he is as he says a friend of Putin, why has assets not been frozen. Give any fine to Ukraine

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[The general]

I didn’t read the whole thing but noticed he lives with his third wife, he’s 91 and has a 2 year old son, wonder who helped him out with that

It was yrs ago , a test tube and freezer !

 

[robrace]

Got a lot of admiration for himfathering a baby at 89 unless it was a grudge baby!

 

[joe and sue]

I didn’t read the whole thing but noticed he lives with his third wife, he’s 91 and has a 2 year old son, wonder who helped him out with that

someone obviously had it in for him !!

 

[pappajohn]

My sympathy goes to his 2 year old son.....his dad is unlikely to see his 5th birthday and the kid will never remember his dad.
Selfish tw@t.

 

[gus-lopez]

Just a matter of scale isn't it, is he really any happier with three billion that he has to avoid tax on than any one just jogging along on three thousand.

Yes.

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[jockaneezer]

Doesn't he live in Brazil now ? Maybe taking a leaf out of Ronnie Biggs' book, have a kid to a local and no extradition treaty to the UK ?

 

[pagey]

My sympathy goes to his 2 year old son.....his dad is unlikely to see his 5th birthday and the kid will never remember his dad.
Selfish tw@t.

That could be an asset

 

[Gaston aires]

I don’t wish to know people like Ecclestone. Big ego, little dick, greedy, plague on him.
Phil

 

[Gaston aires]

Got a lot of admiration for himfathering a baby at 89 unless it was a grudge baby!

It was a grudge baby. Some bastards had it in for him.
Phil

 

[poppycamper]

Why do people who are near the end of their lives & rolling in money play games like this?
At this rate if found guilty he is likely to end his days in prison. Weird huh.

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Read his autobiography....he has been a crook/villian/fraudster/bully all his life, even to his best pal and protogee Jochen Rindt RIP. Only way he got anywhere with his Brabham team.

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[Oldrat]

There’s a lot of morale judgement making going on here about someone folks have probably never met, never known and only read about mainly in Murdoch’s media, who incidentally is one of his arch enemies.

 

[poppycamper]

There’s a lot of morale judgement making going on here about someone folks have probably never met, never known and only read about mainly in Murdoch’s media, who incidentally is one of his arch enemies.

Autobiography.... From the horses mouth.. so to speak..

 

[joe and sue]

I don’t wish to know people like Ecclestone. Big ego, little dick, greedy, plague on hi

A friend of mine had a sign on his office in, he claimed "Latin" with the translation under, which read
"Beware of little men"

 

[poppycamper]

A friend of mine had a sign on his office in, he claimed "Latin" with the translation under, which read
"Beware of little men"

Napoleon only 5ft 6in.

 

[SpeedyDux]

I am no fan of Ecclestone. I hold him and his pal Max Mosely responsible for turning F1 into a money printing machine, now US-owned, dominated by a handful of teams with massive budgets. To even start a team now you need to be a billionaire. F1 used to be open to a genius engineer / racing driver enthusiast e.g. Colin Chapman but those days are long gone. Bernie pulled up the ladder behind him.

There’s a lot of morale judgement making going on here about someone folks have probably never met, never known and only read about mainly in Murdoch’s media, who incidentally is one of his arch enemies.

I agree. Also, once a charge has been laid, you have to be careful with public comments otherwise it can become contempt of court.

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[nicholsong]

I am no fan of Ecclestone. I hold him and his pal Max Mosely responsible for turning F1 into a money printing machine, now US-owned, dominated by a handful of teams with massive budgets. To even start a team now you need to be a billionaire. F1 used to be open to a genius engineer / racing driver enthusiast e.g. Colin Chapman but those days are long gone. Bernie pulled up the ladder behind him.



I agree. Also, once a charge has been laid, you have to be careful with public comments otherwise it can become contempt of court.

Also attract the worse media publicity you can get then your Barrister stands up claiming 'Trial by Media, my Client cannot get a fair trial'.

Of course that might work in a jury trial, but not many English High Court Judges will fall for that one.

 

[olley]

When we were working on Petra's new house in London he popped in for a visit, sil had a chat to him, but he chats to anybody.
Underground swimming pool all paid for by daddy, taken from the sales burb, we weren't allowed to take photos, sackable offence and the place was stuffed with cameras.

 

[joe and sue]

When we were working on Petra's new house in London he popped in for a visit, sil had a chat to him, but he chats to anybody.
Underground swimming pool all paid for by daddy, taken from the sales burb, we weren't allowed to take photos, sackable offence and the place was stuffed with cameras.
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No photographs in these people's properties is quite a common clause in the contracts when working in them, or it was when i was in that sector

 

[olley]

Different world isn't it joe where money is of no importance.
We were given free M&M's, they should have been delivered with their initials on them so they didn't want them.

 

[Rob Hammond]

“The world is mine “ as long as daddy is paying

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