Overview

• Only the 10,000 CHF fine is due now, with 80,000 CHF suspended for three years unless the driver incurs further traffic violations.
• Swiss courts use a day-fine system that set 40 daily rates of 2,000 CHF each calibrated to the offender’s wealth.
• The defendant ranks among Switzerland’s 300 wealthiest citizens, justifying a steeper penalty than under fixed-rate catalogues.
• Known as a repeat offender, he faced a 70,000 CHF fine for a similar speeding violation in 2016.
• Under Germany’s flat-rate regime the same infraction would carry a €180 fine and only threat of a one-month driving ban for repeat offenders.