FORMER F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has reportedly been arrested for illegally carrying a shotgun for the second time in four years.
The 95-year-old British business magnate has been arrested at a Portuguese aerodrome for carrying a shotgun when he landed his private jet, Correio de Manha reported.
He was detained in Brazil for carrying a gun as he boarded a private jet to Switzerland just four years ago.
The former F1 boss said to have been held at Tires Aerodrome in Cascais, near Lisbon.
Airport cops are understood to have arrested Ecclestone during a “routine operation”.
Portugal’s Airport Division of the Public Security Police (PSP) has yet to officially comment.
In 2022, Ecclestone admitted to carrying the gun after he was detained in Sao Paulo, but said he had been unaware it had been in his luggage.
He was then freed and allowed to jet off to Switzerland after paying bail.
Ecclestone later called the arrest a “silly, tiny little incident”, adding that it had caused a lot of aggravation as he tried to fly back to Europe with his family.
He also denied he had been formally arrested, despite Brazilian authorities confirming that a businessman it didn’t name had been arrested for possession of a firearm at the Campinas airport.
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The ex-motorsport boss went on to say he had bought the LW Seecamp .32 from a Formula One mechanic without any ammo years ago in Brazil.
Ecclestone said he only carried the weapon as a deterrent.
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