Bernie Ecclestone arrested in Brazil for ‘carrying GUN while boarding private plane to Switzerland’
Bernie Ecclestone is arrested in Brazil for carrying a GUN while boarding private plane to Switzerland: Former F1 supremo claims he was unaware firearm was in his luggage
Police found an undocumented LW Seecamp .32 gun in Ecclestone’s luggageHe was then arrested and taken to a facility at Viracopos airport in CampinasHe acknowledged owning the gun, but said he was unaware it was in his luggage
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Bernie Ecclestone was arrested in Brazil late on Wednesday for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a private plane to Switzerland, local police said on Thursday.
The Brazilian police found an undocumented LW Seecamp .32 gun in the former Formula One supremo’s luggage during an X-ray screening, police said in a statement.
They added that he was then arrested and taken to a facility at Viracopos airport in Campinas.
Ecclestone, 91, acknowledged owning the gun, but said he was unaware it was in his luggage at the time, police said.
The Briton paid bail and was freed to travel to Switzerland.
Bernie Ecclestone was arrested in Brazil late on Wednesday for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a private plane to Switzerland, local police said on Thursday. Pictured with Brazilian wife Fabiana Flosi
The Brazilian police found an undocumented LW Seecamp .32 gun in the former Formula One supremo’s luggage during an X-ray screening, police said in a statement (picture of a LW Seecamp .32 for illustrative purposes only)
Ecclestone is married to Brazilian-born Fabiana Ecclestone, an FIA vice-president and member of the World Motor Sport Council.
They attended several events in the South American country in May, including a local Stock Car race in the countryside near Sao Paulo and a meeting with triple world champion Nelson Piquet in Brasilia.
In 2016, Ecclestone’s helicopter pilot was arrested on suspicion of being the mastermind of a plot to kidnap his mother-in-law.
Aparecida Schunk, the mother of Ecclestone’s wife Fabiana Flosi, was snatched from her home in São Paulo by armed robbers who posed as delivery men.
A police kidnap squad in Brazil stormed the building where she was being held and found her tied up – and released her into the arms of her family.
Jorge Eurico da Silva Faria, was the president of the Brazilian Helicopter Pilots Association until April 2015 and overlooked all the F1 helicopter operations in Sao Paulo until 2014.
They added that he was then arrested and taken to a facility at Viracopos airport (pictured) in Campinas
In 2016, Ecclestone’s helicopter pilot (above) was arrested on suspicion of being the mastermind of a plot to kidnap his mother-in-law
He was arrested in a house in a luxury condo in the Granja Viana district of Sao Paulo’s Cotia region, close to where the victim was being held.
Ecclestone spoke of his relief after Schunk was freed from her captors.
He told MailOnline: ‘I’m very happy. The last few days haven’t been very good. This isn’t a good thing to happen to you and your family.
‘The police officers we dealt with were fantastic, they did an unbelievable job, it was absolutely first class. We are very, very, very happy with them.’
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