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Three individuals have been found guilty of conspiring to blackmail against the family of the seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher.
Since 2013, Michael Schumacher has been out of the public eye due to serious brain injuries from a ski accident, with his family choosing to keep his medical condition private. A bouncer named Yilmaz T from a nightclub in southern Germany has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening to upload Schumacher family’s personal photos, videos, and medical records to the dark web unless they paid €15 million. Yilmaz’s son received a six-month suspended sentence, while a former security guard and accomplice received a two-year suspended sentence. Yilmaz admitted to receiving stolen files and offered to return them as a “clean deal.” Despite concerns about a missing hard drive, the Schumacher family’s lawyer vowed to exhaust all legal options to seek justice for what he called the “ultimate betrayal”. The three men were arrested in June 2024 after authorities tracked the source of threatening phone calls to Germany from Switzerland.
