A truck driver from Rhineland-Palatinate blackmailed FC Bayern last year.
He asked for 250,000 euros, otherwise he would “drop a bomb”.
A blackmail process has now come to an end in Munich *.
The 46-year-old perpetrator stated that he had exclusive information about Timo Werner.
FC Bayern * took the threat seriously.
Munich
- He has pulled a hood over his head,
Mike R.
hides his face
behind a folder.
But
the driver had to face
his
criminal case
on Tuesday (November 17th) in the
district court
- because he had
blackmailed
FC Bayern
.
Motorist blackmailed FC Bayern for transferring business with Timo Werner
For the first time on July 5, 2019,
Mike R. sent
an email to the club in which the 46-year-old
demanded
250,000 euros
from
Bayern
.
Allegedly, wrote R., he had exclusive information from the then
transfer poker about soccer national player Timo Werner
, which
FC Bayern *
wanted to commit.
In summer 2019 one of the hottest decisions in the Bundesliga, but in the end
Werner
decided to
move to
Chelsea FC
.
But that was not yet available, as
Mike R.
the
Bayern
threatened "a huge bang" to cause, if he does not get his money.
In the
transfer
deals allegedly crooked things went that he wanted to make public.
In a second email on July 12, the driver wrote that he would wait until the start of the season and then - according to the literal threat - “drop the bomb”.
Police have no problem identifying the blackmailer
At
Bayern
, the blackmail attempt was taken seriously and the
police were turned on *
one.
They then searched the apartment of
Mike R.
, who
lives
in
Frankenthal
(Rhineland-Palatinate), and arrested him.
In the letters he had given his real name and his wife's bank details.
"We have never had a case like this," said an investigator in court.
"One
can hardly speak of
blackmail
, the attempt was so amateurish," said lawyer Nicole Schneider, who
defends
Mike R.
He ultimately admitted the allegations and was sentenced to four months' probation.
In addition, R. has to
pay
150 euros to the
SOS Children's Village
and
apologize
in writing to the
FC Bayern clerk
who read his emails first.
According to the investigator, the club had "always promised not to pay" despite the blackmail attempt.
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