Former F1 team owner now sentenced to jail
Jul.13 - Former team owner and boss Vijay Mallya has been sentenced to four months in jail.
It is the outcome of the Indian billionaire's long-running dispute with his country's authorities, with the Supreme Court handing down the jail term in connection with the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines.
The next step for India is managing to extradite Mallya, 66, from the UK.
"He has so far avoided it," a legal source told the Financial Times. "He has fought very hard."
In other legal news, former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone will face London's Westminster Magistrates Court on August 22.
He is charged with fraud over some $500 million in undeclared overseas assets.
"This follows a complex and worldwide criminal investigation by HMRC's fraud investigation service," said the service's director Simon York.
In Italy, La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that triple world champion Nelson Piquet is being investigated by Brazil's judiciary at the behest of four human rights groupls.
They are asking for the 69-year-old to pay 10 million Brazilian Real ($1.85m) for moral harm as a result of his homophobic and 'N-word' comments directed at fellow F1 champion Lewis Hamilton.
Finally, the FIA has announced that former F1 race director Michael Masi is leaving the governing body altogether to "be closer to his family" in Australia and "take on new challenges".
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always liked Vijay, as flawed an he was he kept Force India going and had some great looking livery 4 mth nick bugga all really
Yes, he was good for the sport. India wanted him bad tho...
Can't pull that Musk crap in India ;-)
4 months without caviar and champaign
Harsh sentence indeed
He will be smoking roll ups and watching his back
Right.
He has already paid people to watch his back (mostly his butt).
Shold have given himself up years ago and kep Force India...
Pity about Kingfisher Airlines, they were a Skytrax 5 star rated airline! Makes you wonder what Vijay did with it.
However, he did a great job while he was involved in F1 and with Force India. Jail in India would not be a pleasant experience!
As for Bernie, $500 million would be petty cash for him!
Milked it dry of cash thru huge divis like fat bloke did with Debenhams nodoubt
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