Former Formula 1 driver Adrian Sutil has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and embezzlement during an international raid, according to reports in Germany.

Bild reports that Sutil, who raced in F1 from 2007 to 2014, was detained on Thursday morning by German police.

Sutil was arrested as part of a raid that took place simultaneously at three addresses in Monaco , Switzerland and Sindelfingen in Germany , with the 42-year-old found at the latter.

A spokesperson for the Stuttgart public prosecutor’s office said: ‘Several properties were searched in cooperation with the Baden-Wurttemberg State Criminal Police Office.’

According to investigators, Sutil is suspected of ‘joint fraud in a particularly serious case and joint embezzlement’.

An arrest warrant had been issued for the Ger

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