The amount is so large and improbable that the checks were careful. A Belgian motorist was arrested during a road check in the province of Limburg (northeast of Belgium) on Wednesday April 24, and the police discovered that he had accumulated 6.2 million euros in fines of all kinds unpaid.
“We checked to make sure there were no encoding errors. It’s an amount that is correct”indicates Florence Angelici, spokesperson for the FPS Finances, interviewed by RTL Info.
Obviously habitual of non-payment of his fines, this Belgian owed exactly 6,238,607 euros to the services of the Belgian State. Obviously, he was unable to pay this amount and his vehicle was confiscated by the police.
According to a Belgian criminal lawyer, Philippe Zevenne, quoted by the Belgian media, it is not just about traffic offenses. “For a fine of 6 million euros, we would have to count around 2,000 police convictions, which is impossible”he specifies.
He mentions convictions in cases of human trafficking or drug trafficking, in which the fines can be very high. The exact nature of the fines remains unknown.
