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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A wealthy driver has been fined $129,544 for speeding in Finland, where such penalties are calculated on the basis of an offender's income.
"I really regret the matter," Anders Wiklöf was quoted as saying in an article published Monday by the main newspaper for the Aaland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland in the Baltic Sea.
Wiklöf was driving 51 miles per hour in a 31 miles per hour zone when police stopped and ticketed him Saturday. Along with getting the fine, he had his driver's license suspended for 10 days, the Nya Aaland newspaper said.
It wasn't the first time Wiklöf was caught driving too fast. In 2018, he was fined $68,176 and he had to cough up $102,000 five years earlier.
A native of Aaland, Wiklöf is chairman of a holding company that includes businesses in the logistics, helicopter services, real estate, trade and tourism sectors.
The archipelago sits at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, between the Finnish city of Turku, on mainland Finland's west coast, and Sweden's capital of Stockholm.
