Swiss helicopter firm being investigated for attempts to sell Schumacher's medical file

A Swiss helicopter firm is reportedly being investigated for attempts to sell former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher's medical file.

Schumacher, who was moved on 16 June from a French hospital to a hospital in Lausanne in Switzerland, was transferred by road, but initially the helicopter company had been reportedly contacted.

According to the BBC, Schumacher's manager Sabine Kehm had said last month that his medical files had been 'clearly stolen' and were being offered for sale. Kehm had warned that criminal charges would be pressed if such confidential files were bought or published.

The medical records, that are said to consist of a few pages written by his doctors in the French city of Grenoble, were apparently being offered for sale to media across Europe for 50,000 euros, the report said.

French and Swiss media have now said that the prosecutor in Grenoble is looking at a computer whose IP address has been traced to a Swiss helicopter company, which received the medical files while Schumacher's doctors were considering how to transport him to Lausanne.

According to the Grenoble prosecutor, the computer was reportedly traced back to a helicopter company in the Swiss canton of Zurich. The company's name has not been made public.

Schumacher suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident in the French Alps last December and came out of a medically induced coma last month after almost six months since the accident.