Charged with breaking the sporting codeRepresentatives of McLaren Mercedes have been requested to appear before an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Thursday, July 26, 2007.
The team representatives have been called to answer
a charge that between March and July 2007, in breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code.
'McLaren Mercedes had unauthorised possession of documents and confidential information belonging to Scuderia Ferrari, including information that could be used to design, engineer, build, check, test, develop and/or run a 2007 Ferrari Formula One car.'
McLaren's chief designer Mike Coughlan has been suspended after allegations he received technical information from sacked Ferrari chief engineer Nigel Stepney back in April.
Ferrari brought a case against Coughlan to London's High Court this week.
However, the hearing was suspended on Wednesday after Coughlan said he would provide a sworn declaration as to how he obtained the papers at the heart of the industrial espionage scandal.
Article 151 states:
Breach of rules
Any of the following offences in addition to any offences specifically referred to previously, shall be deemed to be a breach of these rules:
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c) Any fraudulent conduct or any act prejudicial to the interests of any competition or to the interests of motor sport generally.
Source FIA / AFP
