F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has had his bribery trial ended, by paying a Munich court US$100m (£60m).
The payment means he is found neither guilty nor not guilty, the BBC reports, and that he can walk free from court.
He was able to do this due to a German legal provision (known as paragraph 153a), which allows some cases - including ones that are going to be particularly difficult to reach a judgement on - to be ended by payment.
Included in the mitigating circumstances in which the judge accepted the payment were Ecclestone's older age.
The judge, Peter Noll, ruled that US$99m would go into Bavarian state coffers and the other US$1m would go to a children's hospital.
The provision exists to ease the burden on courts, but as the BBC goes on to explain, it's usually invoked before a trial starts rather than mid-trial.
Ecclestone was indicted on a bribery charge in July last year, relating to a US$44m (£29m) payment to German banker Gerhard Gribowsky of BayernLB, linked to the sale of a stake in F1.
The racing head denied any wrongdoing and said the money was intended to stop the banker from exposing him to a UK tax inquiry. He said he was worried Gribkowsky would tell the tax authorities he had set up an offshore family trust.
The banker was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for accepting bribes.