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The Swiss legal practice of fining offenders according to their means has proved painful for a millionaire motorist who has been hit with a record £181,632.39 penalty. Swiss police caught him racing through a village at 63 miles per hour (100 km per hour) in his red Ferrari Testarossa, Swiss media reported. A court in the northeastern Swiss canton of St Gallen handed down a fine of 299,000 Swiss francs, far outstripping the previous record of 111,000 francs clocked up by a Porsche driver in Zurich in 2008, after a string of previous traffic offences. “The accused ignored elementary traffic rules with a powerful vehicle out of a pure desire for speed,” the court said in its judgement. The court heard evidence that at points the driver clocked speeds of 86 mph (137 kph) on country roads, according to Blick, a daily newspaper. The St Gallen Cantonal Court ordered the man to part with a proportion of his £14.2 million (23.3 million franc) fortune, which included a villa with a garage containing five luxury cars. More