upon his return from holiday in the philippines on 5 july, stepney was interrogated by the italian police as part of the industrial espionage case. on 6 july, honda f1 released a statement confirming that stepney and coughlan approached the team regarding "job opportunities" in june 2007. since the revelation of coughlan's involvement in the affair mclaren provided a full set of drawings and development documents to the fia, detailing all updates made to the team's chassis since the incident occurred at the end of april.