A nightclub bouncer who was a part of a plot to blackmail Michael Schumacher for £12m has been jailed after being convicted of conspiring with two different males to acquire non-public footage of the motor racing legend.
Yilmaz Tozturkan, 53, was sentenced to a few years in jail, along with his son, Daniel Lins, 30, an IT knowledgeable, given a six-month suspended sentence.
Schumacher’s former bodyguard Markus Fritsche, 53, was additionally on trial in Germany after arduous drives containing confidential photos, movies and medical information had been stolen from a pc. Fritsche was given a two-year suspended sentence at Wuppertal district courtroom.
The trial, which started in December, heard that greater than 1,500 photos, movies and confidential medical information had been downloaded from a pc.
The delicate information was given to Fritsche, who handed them to Tozturkan. The latter informed the Schumacher household he would “add them on to the darkish net” except cash was paid, the courtroom heard.
Tozturkan had denied blackmail and insisted they had been providing the household a “enterprise deal”.
Earlier than the decision was introduced, Tozturkan, who’s in jail on an unrelated crime, informed the courtroom: “I’m very sorry and ashamed for what I’ve completed. It was a really disgusting factor. I take full duty.”
In the course of the trial, the household expressed considerations that one arduous drive containing delicate materials had not been recovered regardless of repeated searches of the defendants’ properties.
Thilo Damm, the Schumacher household lawyer, stated they deliberate to enchantment towards the “lenient sentences”.
Damm added: “We don’t agree with every thing the courtroom stated. You possibly can relaxation assured that we’ll exhaust all authorized prospects at our disposal.
“We don’t know the place the lacking arduous drive is … so there’s the potential for one other menace by the again door.”
Schumacher, 56, a seven-time F1 world champion, has not been seen in public since a ski accident in 2013 within the French Alps the place he suffered extreme head accidents.
He was put in an induced coma and introduced house in September 2014, along with his medical situation since stored non-public by his household.
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