The ongoing legal row over whether Bernie Ecclestone and others conspired to fix a🔜n agreeabl💝e price for CVC's acquisition of F1 shares has taken another twist with news that the 83-year old's lawyer is to join him in facing corruption charges in Germany.

Despite being cleared of deliberately undervaluing the price of BayernLB's shares in order to deny Constantin Medien a cut of the proceeds, Ecclestone was accused by the High Court in London of 'bribing' 💫BayernLB banker Gerhard Gribkowsky in order to ensure that CVC emerged as the preferred bidder.

Ecclestone was on𒅌e of four facing the Constantin accusation, and continues to face bribery charges i🧜n both Germany and Switzerland, and now it has been reported that lawyer Stephen Mullens has been similarly charged by German prosecutors

According to Britain's Telegraph newspaper, Mullens has been li👍nked to the $44m 'bribe' paid by Ecclestone, joining Gribkowsky and the German's former lawyer, Geral🧔d Toifl, in facing trial in Munich in April.