In a move that some believe increases the likelihood of
Max Mosley being forced out of his post when the FIA Senate meets to hold a vote of confidence on his future early next month, a leading legal brain has been hired by the sport's governing body to closely analyse the sex scandal.
The Senate is due to convene in the
FIA's Paris headquarters on 3 June, in a reunion that could determine whether Mosley – implicated in what the
News of the World termed a ‘sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers' – is able to remain in his role as FIA President until the expiry of his current term in October, 2009, something he has repeatedly re-iterated he intends to do.
The 68-year-old has frequently and vigorously denied any ‘Nazi connotations' to the role-playing, despite the
News of the World quoting one of the prostitutes involved as having insisted he personally and specifically ordered the Nazi theme. The tabloid newspaper has sent FIA members a copy of the video clip of the £2,500, five-hour experience, with all 222 members due to vote on Mosley's future during the extraordinary general assembly.
According to
The First Post, the FIA has now called in the services of one of Britain's foremost legal figures, Anthony Scrivener, QC, to provide a legal analysis to test the truthfulness of those denials. Scrivener is a barrister noted for his forensic mind, and one who Saddam Hussein attempted to recruit in 2005. The governing body has insisted Mosley has sanctioned the appointment.
The president himself has hired former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington in an effort to prove his suspicion that he was the victim of a conspiracy to destroy his reputation. He is set to take the
News of the World on in court at the beginning of July, seeking ‘unlimited damages' against the Sunday red-top for breach of privacy.
