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Former Ferrari engineer Nigel Stepney is linked to the attempted sabotage of cars before May's Monaco Grand Prix, an Italian prosecutor has said.

Ferrari have taken Stepney to court in their home town of Modena after a mysterious powder was allegedly found around the petrol caps of their cars days before the race.

Powder also turned up in Stepney's pocket but the Briton has said he was set up.

Modena prosecutor Giuseppe Tibis has completed his file on the case and believes there is evidence against Stepney.

"Certainly from sworn testimony the suspicion exists that it was Stepney who handled the powder that has polluted the petrol," he was quoted as saying in Italian media on Wednesday.

The case will now proceed following the court's August break. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/62062

I still find it too incredible to believe that a man of Nigel Stepney's reputation within F1 would resort to something as crass as putting powder in a fuel tank!! It makes no sense and sounds more like the kind of thing that would be written into a Hollywood film