Inside Michael Schumacher’s decade-long recovery from ‘desperately cruel’ ski crash as brother shares devastating update
THE mastermind of the Michael Schumacher blackmail plot threatened to leak "intimate" photos of the stricken star, a German court has been told.Markus F, 53, reportedly turned bitter following the decision and hatched a plan alongside two other men to extort the wealthy family out of millions, it has been alleged.
The intimate images are said to be a part of a 1,500 cache of secret files believed to have been stolen from the Schumacher family home. Yilmaz then allegedly used his son Daniel L to help him make contact with the Schumacher family before trying to extort them.Yilmaz - who had known Markus for over 20 years - was allegedly promised a small commission in return for his help.
Speaking for the first time at Wuppertal District Court, Yilmaz T said he had done nothing wrong and that it was all to help out a poor nurse. “I didn’t think there was anything bad about it. He said he had photos of a person and wanted to sell them.
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