- It comes after a father and son allegedly concerned within the plot had been arrested
Police have arrested the suspected ‘mastermind’ in a plot to blackmail the household of former Formulation 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, German media studies.
The person is a 52-year-old who has labored as a safety guard for the household, the general public prosecutor’s workplace in Wuppertal stated.
It comes after the arrest of two different suspects – a 53-year-old father, named solely as Yilmaz T, and his 30-year-old son – on June 19.
The pair allegedly claimed to have delicate recordsdata containing photos of the F1 legend after his near-fatal snowboarding crash in 2013, telling the Schumacher household they ‘wouldn’t need (the images) printed’.
They demanded 15 million euros in return for not sharing the photographs, Bild studies, and are stated to have promised the previous safety guard a fee.
The seven-time world champion has not been seen in public since he suffered a severe mind damage within the brutal snowboarding accident within the French Alps
The 2 males transferred ‘particular person recordsdata’ to the household to point out they’d entry to paperwork concerning the F1 star, investigators declare.
A senior prosecutor in Wuppertal confirmed to German media {that a} preliminary analysis of knowledge units obtained in searches of the bouncer’s condominium contained ‘photographs regarding the Schumacher household’s personal life’.
Throughout the investigation into the place the 2 males bought the photographs from, police managed to determine the third suspect, in accordance with studies.
The 52-year-old man was arrested on to be arrested within the city of Wülfrath in western Germany.
His function is alleged to have been changing personal photos of the household into digital kind with a purpose to switch them to Yilmaz T and his son.
German investigators had been tipped off concerning the blackmail plot by authorities in Switzerland, the place Schumacher has been cared for on the household house for the reason that accident.
Suspects Yilmaz T, 53 (pictured), and his 30-year-old son allegedly claimed to have delicate recordsdata containing photos of the F1 legend after his near-fatal snowboarding crash in 2013
‘Technical measures’ made it potential to hint the alleged extortionists to Wuppertal, prosecutors stated.
The 2 suspects, who had been on probation in one other case, had been arrested by police on June 19 in a grocery store parking zone in Gross-Gerau, south of Frankfurt.
Authorities searched eight properties, in addition to the principle residences of the 2 males, seizing ‘a number of information storage units’.
‘Intensive investigations’ into the case had been nonetheless ongoing, they stated.
If convicted, the suspects face a jail sentence of as much as 5 years, the prosecutors added.
Schumacher crashed right into a boulder in a freak snowboarding accident within the Alps in December 2013
Schumacher, who is taken into account top-of-the-line F1 drivers of all time, has not been seen in public since he suffered a severe mind damage in a brutal snowboarding accident within the French Alps in 2013.
The seven-time world champion driver had a freak fall simply metres away from a well-liked ski slope that resulted in vital head accidents lower than a 12 months after retiring from the game.
His spouse Corinna, whom he married in 1995, has insisted on complete secrecy over his situation since.
