Schumacher's purported stolen medical files offered for sale, manager says

Stolen medical files that may be those of Michael Schumacher are being offered for sale, the injured F1 racing driver's manager said, according to CNN. 

Schumacher has been undergoing hospital treatment since a skiing accident at the end of last year but is now out of a coma.

Manager Sabine Kehm said the documents had been offered for sale "for several days."

She added, "We cannot judge if these documents are authentic. However, the documents are clearly stolen. The theft has been reported. The authorities are involved."

Medical files are confidential and it is forbidden to buy or publish such data, Kehm said.

"We will therefore, in every single case, press for criminal charges and damages against any publication of the content or reference to the medical file," she said.

Schumacher, 45, suffered severe head trauma in a skiing accident at the French Alps resort of Meribel on December 29.

After several months in a hospital in Grenoble, France, where he was kept in a medically induced coma for more than three months, the champion driver was transferred last week to a hospital in Switzerland for rehabilitation.