Three people sentenced to prison for blackmailing Michael Schumacher's family
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A court in Wuppertal, Germany, has convicted three people of blackmailing the family of former Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher.
The main defendant Yilmaz T. (53) attempted to extort 15 million euros from the family of the famous driver by threatening to publish photos and videos on the dark web, the hidden side of the internet.
His 30-year-old son Daniel helped him send the information from an email that is technically untraceable.
The third man, who worked as a security guard for the Schumacher family until March 2021, sold the first defendant, between October 2022 and May 2024, photos and videos showing Schumacher before and after his skiing accident in 2013, which he allegedly copied without permission while employed by the driver's family.
Yilmaz was sentenced to three years in prison, his son to one year of probation and the 53-year-old security guard was sentenced to two years.
Michael Schumacher has not been seen in public since his accident in the French ski resort of Meribel in late 2013. The seven-time Formula 1 champion suffered a serious head injury, spent nearly six months in an induced coma and has been receiving treatment at his home in Switzerland since then.
