Patrik Sinkewitz will not face criminal charges following this month's doping confession, said a spokesman for the Bonn public prosecutor's office on Tuesday.

The 27-year-old German was found to have an abnormally high level of testosterone in his blood during a routine doping control before this year's Tour de France, and T-Mobile subsequently sacked him during the Tour. Earlier this month, he confessed in the German magazine Der Spiegel to having used the banned blood booster EPO since 2003.

The Bonn resident has agreed to pay an undisclosed five-figure sum to charity, but will face no further legal action.

"Mr. Sinkewitz has already been sufficiently punished by the loss of his job and other sources of income," chief state prosecutor Friedrich Apostel told the German agency SID. "In addition, he has cooperated with the investigation and has given valuable statements about doping practices in professional cycling."

Apostel added that Sinkewitz still faces "substantial financial demands from his former employer and from sponsors, as well as facing a "long ban" from the German cycling federation (BDR).

Sinkewitz recently spent five hours giving evidence to a BDR disciplinary committee in a bid to have his expected two-year ban reduced.