Three males have been discovered responsible of attempting to blackmail Components One legend Michael Schumacher’s household.
They threatened to launch about 1,500 personal photographs and movies on the darkish net – in the event that they weren’t paid £12.5m.
The trio additionally threatened to publish digitised copies of Schumacher’s medical data.
The 53-year-old ringleader, who had earlier convictions, was sentenced to a few years in jail at a district court docket in Wuppertal, western Germany.
His son acquired a six-month suspended sentence and was fined £1,000.
The third man, a former worker of a safety agency employed to guard the Schumacher household dwelling in Switzerland, acquired a two-year suspended sentence and was fined £2,000 for aiding and abetting the opposite two males.
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Some 900 footage and virtually 600 movies of the household, plus the medical data had been confiscated from the perpetrators, the general public prosecutor’s workplace stated.
A tough drive stays lacking.
Lawyer Thilo Damm, representing the Schumacher household, stated they wished a four-year jail time period for the safety guard and can attraction.
Whereas the opposite two defendants made confessions, the safety guard’s lawyer denied the costs and demanded an acquittal, claiming his shopper had not stolen the information.
Schumacher, a seven-time Components One world champion, has not been seen in public since he suffered a severe mind harm in a snowboarding accident on a household vacation within the French Alps in December 2013.
Final yr his household secured £166,000 in compensation from the writer of a German journal which printed an AI-generated “interview” with the racing driver.
