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Ecclestone 'a bit of an idiot' for settling
– Bernie Ecclestone says he feels like "a bit of an idiot" for paying $100 million (60 million pounds) to end his bribery trial in Munich, after the judge "more or less said" that the Formula 1 supremo was acquitted.Ecclestone went on trial in April over claims that he bribed German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky with a $44 million payment to ensure that the sale of a major stake in the motorsport business went to a buyer of his choice.State prosecutors accepted the settlement on Tuesday morning, before the decision was finalised in court."In the end what has happened is good and bad – the good is the judge more or less said I was acquitted, and [the...
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