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Nigel Stepney and Mike Coughlan - the two men who came close to bringing Formula 1 to its knees with the well-publicised espionage row of 2007 - have been pronounced free to return to the top flight by FIA President Max Mosley.
The very public Formula 1 spy row that engulfed the sport in 2007 has finally come to a close, with McLaren announcing that they will pay the legal costs of arch-rivals Ferrari after the matter was settled in front of the FIA World Motor Sport Council last September.
Disgraced Ferrari technical manager Nigel Stepney has been interviewed by the Italian magistrate investigating the final throes of the espionage saga that rocked Formula One last season.
The espionage scandal that rocked Formula 1 last year and saw McLaren-Mercedes disqualified from the constructors' world championship and fined a sporting record $100 million USD is far from over yet.
Former Ferrari mechanic Nigel Stepney remains insistent he was not responsible for the spying scandal that rocked Formula 1 in 2007 and which ultimately saw McLaren-Mercedes fined a sporting record $100 million USD and thrown out of the constructors' world championship.