{"id":238538,"date":"2025-02-14T04:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T04:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/three-men-guilty-of-trying-to-blackmail-michael-schumachers-family\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T04:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T04:16:24","slug":"three-men-guilty-of-trying-to-blackmail-michael-schumachers-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/three-men-guilty-of-trying-to-blackmail-michael-schumachers-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men guilty of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher’s family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three men have been found guilty of trying to blackmail Formula One legend Michael Schumacher’s family.<\/p>\n

They threatened to release about 1,500 private photos and videos on the dark web – if they were not paid \u00a312.5m.<\/p>\n

The trio also threatened to publish digitised copies of Schumacher’s medical records.<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old ringleader, who had previous convictions, was sentenced to three years in prison at a district court in Wuppertal, western Germany.<\/p>\n

His son received a six-month suspended sentence and was fined \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n

The third man, a former employee of a security firm hired to protect the Schumacher family home in Switzerland, received a two-year suspended sentence and was fined \u00a32,000 for aiding and abetting the other two men.<\/p>\n

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Judge Birgit Neubert said the former security worker made the most significant contribution to the crime through breach of trust, dpa news agency reported.<\/p>\n

Some 900 pictures and almost 600 videos of the family, plus the medical records were confiscated from the perpetrators, the public prosecutor’s office said.<\/p>\n

A hard drive remains missing.<\/p>\n

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Lawyer Thilo Damm, representing the Schumacher family, said they wanted a four-year prison term for the security guard and will appeal.<\/p>\n

While the other two defendants made confessions, the security guard’s lawyer denied the charges and demanded an acquittal, claiming his client had not stolen the data.<\/p>\n

Schumacher, a seven-time Formula One world champion, has not been seen in public since he suffered a serious brain injury in a skiing accident on a family holiday in the French Alps in December 2013.<\/p>\n

Last year his family secured \u00a3166,000 in compensation from the publisher of a German magazine which printed an AI-generated “interview” with the racing driver.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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