PRETORIA – A Gauteng motorists has been fined R20,000 after pleading guilty to fraud for altering his number plates to avoid paying e-tolls for about a year.
Dr Stoyan Stoychev appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court today where the matter was finalised.
Stoychev pleaded guilty to 987 counts of failing to pay e-tolls, a count for each gantry he drove under without paying.
He was fined R20,000 and will also have to pay the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) R13,200 in outstanding toll fees.
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From December 2013 until March the following year, Stoychev used the freeway system but simply didn’t pay the fees.
Between March and August he started using an altered number plate.
Then, between August and October, he fitted a false number plate to his vehicle.
Source: EWN