Brazilian kidnap gang threatened to behead Bernie Ecclestone’s mother-in-law
THE gang who snatched Bernie Ecclestone’s mother-in-law threatened to behead her.
The F1 boss said they emailed his wife’s family a video of an unidentified woman’s decapitation.
Aparecida Schunck, 67, was driven from her home in São Paulo, Brazil, last month in her own Ford Fiesta.
She was found a week later in a flat in the poor part of the city after the kidnappers made traceable calls to police.
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Her 85-year-old son-in-law — worth an estimated £2.8billion — told the Sunday Times he would never have paid the £28million ransom but admitted he was “shaken”.
His wife Fabiana Flosi, 39, described the gruesome email as the “worst moment” of the family’s nine-day ordeal.
The alleged mastermind was Jorge Eurico da Silva Faria, a pilot used by the Ecclestone family and others involved in Formula One in Brazil. Afterwards, Mr Ecclestone said: “The last few days haven’t been very good.
“The police officers we dealt with did an unbelievable job, it was absolutely first class.”
The F1 boss married Ms Flosi — his third wife — in 2012, three years after meeting her at the Brazilian Grand Prix where she was working as a marketing executive.