EXPOSED: Schumacher bodyguard’s plot to extort £12million by releasing intimate medical photos

Extraordinary new details of an alleged blackmail plot to extort £12million from the family of Michael Schumacher by a former aide of the F1 legend who threatened to release highly personal photos of him onto the dark web can be revealed for the first time today.

Seven times world champion Schumacher, 55, has not been seen in public since a 2013 skiing accident left him seriously disabled and in need of 24-hour care with the star’s wife Corinna fiercely protective of his privacy and medical care since then.

One of the men that Corinna took into the family’s trusted inner circle to help with that care was the star’s bodyguard Markus Fritsche who had been recruited 18 months before his skiing accident.

For eight years the Schumachers had no doubts about the 53-year-old’s loyalty and he was given unique access to the most intimate aspects of the disabled racing driver’s medical procedures.

But when the family finally decided to make changes to the care regime and Fritsche was told he was…