That must have been a helluva an ass whooping to get €1.8 mil
it's germany where (some) fines are based on your income.
"A
day-fine,
day fine,
unit fine or
structured fine is a unit of
fine payment that, above a minimum fine,
is based on the offender's daily personal income. A crime is punished with incarceration for a determined number of days, or with fines. As incarceration is a financial
punishment, in the effect of preventing work, a day-fine represents one day incarcerated and without salary. It is argued to be just, because
if both high-income and low-income population are punished with the same jail time, they should also be punished with a proportionally similar income loss."
Day-fine - Wikipedia
"Advocates say
a $290,000 speeding ticket slapped on a millionaire Ferrari driver in Switzerland was a fair and well-deserved example of the trend.
Germany, France, Austria and the Nordic countries also issue punishments based on a person's wealth.
In Germany the maximum fine can be as much as $16 million compared to only $1 million in Switzerland. Only Finland regularly hands out similarly hefty fine to speeding drivers, with the current record believed to be a $190,000 ticket in 2004."
Traffic fines based on wealth? Europe tries it