76-year-old businessman Anders Wiklof committed his speeding offense on the Aland Islands, an autonomous archipelago in the Baltic Sea. Because in Finland the amount of a speeding fine is determined on the basis of the income of the driver, it was quite expensive for the multimillionaire. The fine for this violation was equivalent to fourteen days’ income, in Wiklof’s case 121,000 euros.
It was not the first speeding fine for Wiklof, who made his fortune in logistics, transport, real estate and tourism, among other things. In 2013 he already had to cough up 95,000 euros, five years later he received a receipt for 63,680 euros. After his most recent fine, he said no Nya Alan that “there may need to be an upper limit on the fine” for speeding.
In Switzerland too, speeding fines are calculated on the basis of the offender’s income and the speed at which the vehicle is driven. In 2010, the highest fine ever was handed out to a 37-year-old driver from Sweden: 679,000 euros. He had driven 290 kilometers per hour where the limit was 120. His Mercedes SLS AMG was also seized.
