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Traffic Police to Fine by Wheels
It looks like the traffic police will be catching non-paying drivers right on the roads. For this purpose, police and bailiffs intend to set up a task force that will check drivers and collect a spare wheel or even the whole car to the good of the state, or even detain a driver for 15 days, if he has failed to pay up the fines, gazeta.ru reported.
Moscow Branch of the Federal Bailiffs Service unveiled Wednesday the plans to enter into an agreement with the city’s traffic police and jointly call to account the persons in arrears with payment. “Such raids are conducted in Moscow now, but they are of one-time nature,” said Stanislav Radchenko, who is in charge of the news department of the Moscow Bailiffs.
According to Radchenko, the agreement with traffic police will make permanent the fight against non-payers, covering the whole city. “It is yet unclear though,” the official said, “whether the raids will be monthly or held once a week, for instance.”
Paying traffic fines is by far not the general practice in Moscow. So, for persistent non-payers, the number of property seizures may go up materially once the bailiffs set to raiding the streets of the city, Radchenko warned.
Whether or not a driver could be stripped off his/her property on the road is an issue for further discussion. The attitude of right advocates is negative even without it.
One should go to Bailiffs Service if a person in debt under the court award has failed to pay, said lawyer Leonid Olshansky. “They will initiate execution proceedings, send a warning notification to a person, and only if the latter doesn’t start paying, a bailiff will come to him/her will-less,” the lawyer explained.
But it won’t be easy to prove legality of bailiff actions on the roadside verge, warned Viktor Travin, president of Board for the Legal Defense of Automobile Owners. “With a bailiff twisting off a wheel right on the road and a gunned policeman nearby, it will be rather difficult to stand for your property,” the lawyer pointed out.
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