Pretoria News - Dr Stroven Stoychey appeared briefly in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on 987 charges – one count for every time he drove under an e-toll gantry with cloned number plates.
Stoychey, a researcher at the CSIR, allegedly altered his number plates by changing the letter “C” to an “O” and the numbers 06 to 60.
The plates were attached to his vehicle with zip-ties and were displayed on it from March until October last year, when he was arrested.
The cloned number plates belonged to a BN Bunting, another motorist who had an e-toll account.
The alleged act accumulated a debt of R13 000.
State Prosecutor David Broughton said the State was in the process of prosecuting a further 800 motorists for similar offences.
Speaking after the matter was postponed by the magistrate, Broughton said the alarm was raised when Stoychey and Bunting passed different gantries in different parts of the province almost simultaneously
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The matter was postponed to August 13.
Pretoria News