Poor Dear! Mad Max Mosley cries foul in free willie trap

[David Guyatt]

After having his naked and bent over botty whipped with a riding crop, Mosley thereafter, still naked, indulges in a good ol' cup of tea to round off his afternoon of cream tea and crumpets.

The video of Mosley's "punishment" is such a British classic of the genre.

As is the legal case to suppress the images still circulating.

[David Guyatt]

I'm revisiting this story again.


It's all about spanking, murder (maybe?) and billions and billions of dollars.


The underlying question to unravel it all is, I suspect:


WHO GAINS.


Besides, the MI6 connection is just too unusual not to revisit this.


From my 2nd post on Page 1 of this thread, the Sunday Times reveals that:

When the story broke, Mosley said he had been told by a source close to the security services that he had been targeted in a covert investigation of his private life by a group specialising in such things for reasons and clients as yet unknown.

The original News of the World story broke in early march 2008. Mosley refused to resign his presidency of the FIA, the F1 ruling body.


Let's remember that NotW was owned by Rupert Murdoch. Yes, let's remember that.


By February 2009, almost a year later, Mosley still held the presidency and continued to refuse to resign. By then he said he knew who was responsible, and that the purpose of the sex sting with, apparently, MI6 assistance, was to get rid of him. He was expected to resign by the News of the Screws when they broke the story.


The person responsible was, Mosley suspects, from "F1". Not the FIA, it seems, but just the F1. See the following piece from the Daily Telegraph:

FIA president Max Mosley knows whodunnit in News of the World sting
FIA president Max Mosley claims he knows who was behind the sting that resulted in the News of the World publishing video footage of him participating in an orgy with prostitutes.

Who's been framed? Max Mosley says he know who was behind News of the World sting Photo: GETTY IMAGES


By Tom Cary
7:51PM GMT 06 Feb 2009


"We pretty much know who it was now," said Mosley. "It wasn't done for fun. It was to get rid of me. I think the theory was that if that came out, I was going to resign. That is what the News of the World thought as well. They thought I would just go away and that was it."


"But I am not going to do anything or say anything until I am absolutely certain. That is going to take a little bit more time."


Mosley confirmed that the individual he suspects is from F1, but insisted it may take several years for him to confirm the identity.


"It might take two or three years for various reasons," Mosley said. "I don't care how long it takes. All sorts of other things are going to come out - there is an awful lot going on on the continent.


"We have got criminal proceedings against 17 individuals in Germany, we've got defamation actions in Germany, France and Italy. And in Italy the defamation actions are an adjunct to criminal proceedings, which of course are in the hands of prosecuting authorities.


"So it has become very much one of those things that takes a while. But we will get there."
Meanwhile, the FIA have lifted restrictions imposed on Nigel Stepney and Mike Coughlan following the 2007 McLaren-Ferrari espionage case.
McLaren were fined $100 million and excluded from the 2007 constructors' championship over the affair, while both Stepney and Coughlan were fired from their respective teams.


"The other day we got a letter from the lawyers of one of them saying he has got this restriction and this restriction, and it does seem a little bit mad to make them serve out even longer when the two teams concerned are all making love to each other," Mosley said. "So, we have said we will let them forget it.


"In the end they were just very minor players. If the full story came out, they are two minor players and there are people who are not minor players. But the full story will probably never come out."

What possibly could've been going on in F1 that might cause this sort of sting to happen?


On 7th May 2009, Mosley's son, Alexander, was found dead in his home in Notting Hill, London, from a "suspected drug overdose". On 24th June 2009, Mosley resigned as president of FIA - an act he had resisted for 15 months.


The obvious question that now should be asked is if his son's death was accidental - i.e., a drug overdose - or something far more sinister?


Mosley's second son Patrick is alive and well.


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In late November 2005, CVC Capital Partners announced it was going to purchase Bernie Ecclestone's shares in Formula One Group which owned 25% of SLEC - the holding company of the Formula One Groups. Additionally, it was agreed to purchase Bayerische Landesbank's 48% share. This handed them majority ownership of F1.


According to a lawyer involved in the current Ecclestone/F1 law case, Ecclestone engaged in a corrupt deal to ensure that his preferred buyer - CVC Capital Partners - were able to acquire F1:

Ecclestone Made Corrupt' Deal to Sell F1 Stake, Lawyer Says
By Kit Chellel - Oct 29, 2013 2:20 PM GMT

Bernie Ecclestone, the chief executive officer of Formula One, was accused on the first day of a London trial of making a "corrupt bargain" to ensure the controlling stake in the sport's parent company was sold to his preferred bidder.


German media company Constantin Medien AG (EV4) is suing Ecclestone over allegations that he paid bribes to German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky in 2005 when F1 was sold to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd. He wanted to ensure he remained as chief executive of Formula One, which was in doubt at the time, said Philip Marshall, a lawyer for Constantin.


Ecclestone, 83, has already been charged in Germany over the scandal and the U.K. trial starts on the same day Swiss prosecutors said they are investigating whether any laws were broken in that country. Gribkowsky was convicted in Munich of receiving a bribe last year and sentenced to 8 ½ years in prison.


Ecclestone gave about $44 million to Gribkowsky, who managed Bayerische Landesbank's controlling stake in F1, then concealed the payments using offshore companies in Mauritius and the British Virgin Islands and "bogus documents," Marshall, told the court, citing prosecution documents from Germany.


Ecclestone's lawyers at Herbert Smith Frehills LLP in London declined to comment, according to a spokesman for the firm. He has said that he made the payments after Gribkowsky threatened to tell U.K. tax officials about a family trust controlled by Ecclestone's wife at the time.


Constantin says it lost as much as $171 million because the 2005 deal undervalued its stake in the sport. The sale was made without any marketing, independent valuation or competing bids, Marshall said.


Ecclestone and CVC co-founder Donald Mackenzie are due to testify at the trial in November.


The case is: Constantin Medien AG v. Bernard Ecclestone, case no. 11-02586, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division.

From Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-29/ecclestone-made-corrupt-deal-to-sell-f1-stake-lawyer-says.html


Back in 2011, Bernie was struggling to maintain control over his F1 empire. Things seemed to be unravelling. His bribery case for one thing. The sums of money involved in the F1 franchise is simply huge - billions and billions.


And the starving were circling:

These days, Ecclestone is struggling to keep his grip on the business.


Bribery Case


At 81, he's under pressure on several fronts. Prosecutors in Germany have named him as a Beschuldigter, or suspect, in a bribery case linked to the sale of Formula One six years ago. Ecclestone, who hasn't been charged, is scheduled to testify in a Munich court today and tomorrow.


In addition, race teams such as Ferrari and McLaren, which complain that Ecclestone is failing to keep Formula One up with the times, are considering putting on a breakaway series that would weaken F1. The teams' contractual obligations, including staying in F1, expire after 2012.
The greatest threat of all to Ecclestone's dominance could come from a looming takeover bid.


Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and the Agnelli family's Exor SpA (EXO) want to buy the 63.4 percent of Formula One owned by London- based buyout firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd. through its Jersey, Channel Islands-based holding company Delta Topco Ltd.


The would-be buyers are pushing ahead despite News Corp.'s run-ins with U.K. authorities over a phone-hacking scandal involving one of its newspapers, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.


Bloody Enormous'


CVC, which manages $44 billion, has invested in Formula One and 53 other companies, including luggage maker Samsonite International SA and Spanish road-toll operator Abertis Infraestructuras SA.


CVC executives declined to comment on the Formula One takeover interest, referring calls to Ecclestone, who owns a 5.3 percent stake in F1. He says it would take a "bloody enormous" bid for CVC to sell.


"We've been building it -- more audience, more income," Ecclestone says. Ultimately, he says, CVC Managing Director Donald Mackenzie will decide. "He's the guy who will turn the lights on and off," Ecclestone says. "I have very few shares, so it's nothing to do with me."


Under CVC's ownership, Ecclestone says he has retained complete autonomy over management even without the full control of the commercial rights he had in the late 1990s.

snip...

CVC sealed the deal after borrowing $2.5 billion in 2005 to acquire Bayerische Landesbank's 48 percent holding and most of the Ecclestone family's 25 percent stake. As part of the transaction, Ecclestone re-acquired a 5.3 percent stake.


Former FIA President Mosley says quick thinking has kept Ecclestone in a dominant position. "If he went into a revolving door behind you, he would come out in front," Mosley says.


Nonetheless, Ecclestone's hand is weaker than it used to be. His one-time ally Mosley stepped down as FIA president in 2009, and Ecclestone doesn't have the same rapport with his successor, former Ferrari team boss Jean Todt, Jenkins says.


On another front, German prosecutors said earlier this year they were investigating suspicions -- Verdachte -- that Ecclestone bribed former Bayerische Landesbank risk manager Gerhard Gribkowsky in the sale of Formula One to CVC. "A bribe?" Ecclestone says. "You shouldn't believe all you read, you know."

Snip...

As vulnerable as Ecclestone is, Formula One suitor News Corp. (NWSA) is embroiled in a phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. that has caused it to shut down the News of the World newspaper, which has admitted accessing the voice mail accounts of celebrities and others.


Amid the controversy, News Corp. announced it was shelving a £7.8 billion offer for the 61 percent of pay-television broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY) it doesn't own. In July, BSkyB won the rights to broadcast the entire F1 series for seven years from March 2012 onward.


The U.K. sideshow is diverting News Corp.'s attention away from its F1 bid, says Tim Westcott, an analyst for media consulting firm IHS Screen Digest in London.


A person familiar with the situation counters that the bid was very much alive as of mid-October. That individual says News Corp. Deputy Chief Operating Officer James Murdoch, the 39-year- old son of CEO Rupert, and Exor chief executive John Elkann, 35, are actively courting racing-team owners and working on a 5- to 10-year business plan for Formula One.


News Corp., whose pay-television channels already air Formula One races in Germany and the U.S., faces another obstacle, Westcott says: It would have to agree to a raft of conditions to assure European Union regulators that it's not going to monopolize the television rights. Alice Macandrew, a spokeswoman for News Corp. in London, declined to comment, as did Exor spokesman Richard Holloway.

These extracted from a larger piece at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-09/ecclestone-flailing-sees-formula-one-as-prey-for-murdoch-agnelli-takeover.html


So, who gains?

What a tanged web...

PS, the attuned investigator who wishes to take this to the next logical stage would probably wish to try to root out who exactly are the money men behind CVC Capital Partners. They might also revisit some of the Murdoch associates connected to the American Mafia and see how that connects.

Just a thought.

[David Guyatt]

I should have noted above that the new FIA president, who succeeded Max Mosley - Ecclestone's chum - is John Todt. His wiki page is HERE.

As the reporter ion one of the foregoing articles stated, Ecclestone does't "have the same rapport with him".

From 1993 until 2007, Todt was the General Manager of Scuderia Ferrari. Addigtionally, from 2004 until 2009, when he was elected president of the FIA, Todt was the CEO and Special Advisor of Ferrari.

Since 1969, FIAT has owned a controlling interest (90%) in Ferrari.

FIAT has been owned, since 1966, by the Giovanni Agnelli (known as the "King of Italy" because of his power) & family. General Motors now also have a stake in FIAT, since Agnelli made overtures to them in 2000.

To repeat from the foregoing post:

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and the Agnelli family's Exor SpA (EXO) want to buy the 63.4 percent of Formula One owned by London- based buyout firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd. through its Jersey, Channel Islands-based holding company Delta Topco Ltd.

Murdoch and Agnelli plan to own F1.

[David Guyatt]

Former F1 boss, Max Mosley, has applied to the High Court to stop Google showing naked pictures of himself with hookers whipping him.

Max Mosley begins court action to stop Google showing pictures of sex party

Lawyers for former F1 racing boss argue that search engine is a publisher and is misusing private information


Former Formula One boss Max Mosley arrives at the High Court for his action against Google. Photograph: National Pictures/Hannah McKayOwen Bowcott
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Thursday 15 January 201511.41 GMT

Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One racing, has begun a UK high court action to stop Google showing pictures of him at a sex party.
Having won similar claims in French and German courts, his lawyers have now initiated action in the high court in London, arguing that the internet search engine is a publisher and is misusing private information.
The challenge is based on a court order made against the News of the World in 2008 but relates only to pictures taken for the story. The outcome of the latest case could set a UK legal precedent in enforcing privacy online.
Mosley,74, successfully sued the now defunct Sunday tabloid for grossly invading his privacy after it printed pictures and published video of him indulging in a five-hour sadomasochistic session with prostitutes in a Chelsea apartment.
His claim is not based on the 2014 precedent of a European court of justice rulingthat established a right to be forgotten in relation to a Spanish claimant who wanted to have a repossession notice deleted from Google searches about him.
In the original case against the now defunct Sunday newspaper, Mosley was awarded £60,000 in damages as well as costs. The News of the World had falsely accused him of taking part in a "sick Nazi orgy".
Mosley, who is the youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the former leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), insisted that the role play at a rented Chelsea basement was harmless, consensual and private and had no Nazi overtones.
In the high court on Wednesday, Antony White QC, for Google, said that the internet company was applying to have the case struck out. Information about the party was already in the public domain and Mosley therefore no longer had any legitimate expectation of privacy in relation to photographs. "The damn has effectively burst," White said.
The images had been viewed by 435,000 people and 1.5 million had seen the video footage immediately after publication, he added. "We don't know how [Mosley's] privacy was somehow regained. There's no continuing reasonable expectation of privacy; everyone is now free to publish."
White said that Google is not a publisher: "There are 40,000 searches [on Google] a second and three and a half billion a day. To suggest that there is any knowing involvement [in publication] is totally artificial. The index [of searches] is provided wholly automatically by crawling through the web. It an algorithmic operation without human involvement."
But Hugh Tomlinson QC, for Mosley, told the court: "We say that [Google are] publishers because they continue to make [the photographs] available on the search engine site. The issue is about under what circumstances they are a publisher."
Mosley, who gave evidence at the Leveson inquiry, has become a campaigner for privacy rights. Before the hearing began, his lawyers said the case concerned "the ability of individuals within the UK to enforce their rights against the large corporations that control access to the internet". The statement added: "It seeks to compel Google to stop gathering and publishing images that the English high court decided in 2008 were unlawful in the landmark privacy case Mosley v News Group Newspapers."
Google has never viewed itself as a publisher and is reluctant to be put in a position where it fears it will be made responsible for policing the internet. It has resisted building a pro-active filter system that would exclude the pictures of Mosley as it might also take down legal material.

The hearing continues.

I have some sympathy for him because it must be embarrassing to the upper crust to have their foibles put on display. Throughout history the British establishment have always come together to protect themselves, so I think it likely the high court will rule in his favour and consign history to the rubbish bin.

Until then:

Watch HERE

[Lauren Johnson]

That was so disappointing.

They ought start having Nazi babes at the airport security. I bet he would like that. ::cavitysearch::