According to a Reuters report, McLaren Mercedes has released a statement saying that neither Ron Dennis, the McLaren owner and director, nor anyone else on the team was involved in setting up the Max Mosley sex scandal sting.

A Mosley ally in the Czech Republic recently said something that indicated the team might have been involved in setting up the scandal since the team had to pay a $100 million fine last year during the McLaren-Ferrari spy scandal.

The team statement came, said the report, "after Radovan Novak, the general secretary of the Czech Automobile Association and a long-standing ally of Mosley, appeared to suggest in a Prague radio interview that the revelations might be linked to last year's Formula One spying controversy."

McLaren is asking the Czech for an explanation.