COPENHAGEN—A 22-year-old Norwegian student has been handed a 250,000-kroner ($38,750 Canadian) fine for drunken driving — but can still count herself lucky. Katharina G. Andresen is reportedly Norway’s richest woman, a tobacco heiress with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.57 billion. Fines for drunken driving in Norway are based on the defendant’s income. Newspaper Finansavisen reported that Oslo City Court said the penalty could have been up to 40 million kroner ($6.2 million) if based on Andresen’s assets. The Guardian reported that the state prosecutor had also demanded 18 days in prison, but court accepted that she had “no fixed income” and that her assets “have not yielded any dividend yet.”The court did increase the fine because of her estimated wealth, however.

Source: thestar November 18, 2017 04:18 UTC