Finnish businessman hit with €121,000 speeding fine

Anders Wiklöf fell foul of system based on severity of offence and offender’s income

A multi-millionaire businessman has been hit with one of the world’s highest speeding fines – €121,000 (£104,000) – for driving 30km an hour over the limit in Finland, where tickets are calculated as a percentage of the offender’s income.

“I really regret the matter,” Anders Wiklöf, 76, told Nya Åland, the main newspaper for the Åland Islands, an autonomous Finnish region in the Baltic Sea. “I had just started slowing down, but I guess that didn’t happen fast enough. It’s how it goes.”