{"id":98021,"date":"2015-09-10T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98021"},"modified":"2015-09-10T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:41:14","slug":"e-toll-evader-found-guilty-fined-r20000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/98021\/e-toll-evader-found-guilty-fined-r20000\/","title":{"rendered":"E-toll evader found guilty, fined R20,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Gauteng resident has been found guilty of fraudulent number plates so as to avoid paying e-tolls, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Stoyan Hristov Stoychev was sentenced to six months imprisonment or a fine pay R20,000. He was also ordered to pay Sanral R14,000 in outstanding e-toll bills.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/news\/a\/d451e20049cc322090f1f9c59f56a7b6\/Gauteng-motorist-fined-over-e-tolls-dodging-20150910\" target=\"_blank\">SABC<\/a> news team, which reported that Stoychev entered into a plea bargain with the state after admitting guilt to one count of fraud and 988 for the contravention of the Road Traffic Act (RTA).<\/p>\n<p>Stoychev was also ordered to complete one hundred hours of community service.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Stoychev changed the C on his number plate to an O while driving from his Randburg home to his workplace in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-tolls<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/95887\/use-e-tolls-to-avoid-crime-sanral\/\">Use e-tolls to avoid crime: Sanral<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/94429\/joburg-mayor-says-no-to-e-tolls\/\">Joburg mayor says no to e-tolls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/95139\/how-sanral-changed-its-e-toll-collection-targets\/\">How Sanral changed its e-toll collection targets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/94439\/licence-discs-safe-from-e-tolls-for-now\/\">Licence discs safe from e-tolls for now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gauteng resident has been found guilty of cloning his number plates so as to avoid paying e-tolls, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":62977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1804,26,429],"class_list":["post-98021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98031,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98021\/revisions\/98031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}