{"id":465516,"date":"2023-10-12T05:39:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465516"},"modified":"2023-10-12T05:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T09:39:31","slug":"bernie-ecclestone-pleads-guilty-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bernie-ecclestone-pleads-guilty-to-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Ecclestone pleads guilty to fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has pleaded guilty for fraud after failing to declare more than \u00a3400m held in a trust in Singapore back in 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ex-Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has pleaded guilty to fraud over a failure to declare \u00a3400m held in a trust in Singapore. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bfBAX5dLa5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bfBAX5dLa5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports F1 (@SkySportsF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsF1\/status\/1712397026619482260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The former Formula 1 owner failed to disclose the trust as it was officially announced in July 2015 and has admitted his wrongdoings after initially pleading &#8220;not guilty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing in front of the Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday Ecclestone changed his plea in front of the judge, completely jeopardizing his case.<\/p>\n<p>The 92-year-old was due to go on trial next month, but with the most recent changes his fate has taken a huge U-turn.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone was one of F1&#8217;s most enigmatic and recognized figures, having run the sport for almost 40 years (from the 1970s until January 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has pleaded guilty for fraud after failing to declare more than \u00a3400m held in a trust in Singapore back in 2015. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[21728,1081],"acf":{"announce":"The former Formula 1 boss has confessed huge wrongdoings","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465518,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465516\/revisions\/465518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465516"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465516"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}