THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — The tabloid newspaper alleging FIA president Max Mosley took part in Nazi role-play during sex acts with prostitutes has said it will send videotapes of the incidents to auto racing’s world governing body.
The News of the World published a follow-up story Sunday in which it quoted an unnamed prostitute who took part in the sex acts. The weekly paper also carried an editorial aimed at backing up its allegations against Mosley.
"We absolutely refute and challenge his assertion that we have invented any elements of his depravity," the paper said. "Which is why we plan to send copies of our video evidence to Senate members representing the global motor-racing community, which will decide on the future of the president.
"Their own statutes decree anyone who inflicts ‘moral injury’ on the FIA by ‘words, deeds or writings’ may be expelled."
The paper said it will make tapes available to any member federation that asks for it.
There was no immediate response from Mosley, who has stayed away from the latest round of the Formula One championship in Bahrain amid growing calls for him to resign.
Mosley has called for a special general assembly to be hosted in Paris at a date to be determined. He will state his case to the 222 national motoring organizations from 130 countries there.
On Saturday, the American Automobile Association joined a growing list of motoring federations demanding the 67-year-old Mosley step down, calling the events "very distressing and embarrassing."
Mosley has already started legal proceedings against the News of the World.
"I was the victim of a disgusting conspiracy. It goes without saying that the so-called Nazi element is pure fabrication," Mosley wrote Friday in a letter to German motoring federation ADAC, excerpts of which was published by website Autosport.com on Saturday.
"This will become crystal clear when the matter comes to trial," Mosley said. "The newspaper invented this in order to spice up their story and introduce my family background."
Mosley is the son of British Union of Fascists party founder Oswald Mosley, a former British politician who served in Parliament for both the Labour and Conservative parties. Oswald Mosley died in 1980.