A Victorian pensioner has been deed with much than $20,000 successful fines aft helium claims a radical of radical falsely nominated him for their driving penalties.
Kelvin Bellette mislaid his wallet connected a autobus successful the Mornington Peninsula successful 2021 and, aft reporting it to police, got it backmost minus his driver's licence.
Since past the disablement pensioner and part-time pizza transportation operator has been deed with 60 driving fines from the area, lone 4 of which are his, helium says.
Mr Bellette moved to Colac, a three-hour thrust westbound of the Mornington Peninsula, successful aboriginal 2023 and received a good for an offence successful that country aboriginal that year.
He hired Colac lawyer Tony Pyrtz who sought a photograph linked to the offence that showed a person, intelligibly not Mr Bellette, down the wheel.
'It looks similar his sanction has been shopped astir the territory down connected the Mornington Peninsula to nominate him arsenic a driver,' Mr Pyrtz told the ABC.
Kelvin Bellette mislaid his driver's licence connected a Mornington Peninsula autobus and claims it was 'shopped around' for radical to nominate him for driving fines
The driving infringements see for speeding, driving without a seatbelt and driving unregistered vehicles successful a toll zone.
'He's been successful a spiral of dealing with fines that aren't his,' Mr Pyrtz said.
Fines Victoria has since provided Mr Bellette's lawyer with a database of the radical who nominated him arsenic the operator for infringement notices.
The database shows 7 antithetic individuals, driving antithetic vehicles, nominated him arsenic the driver, with 1 idiosyncratic doing truthful for 3 antithetic offences.
A Mornington Peninsula trades concern besides nominated him for 8 antithetic offences.
'Kelvin has ne'er owned oregon been successful immoderate of these vehicles, and helium doesn't cognize immoderate of the radical who nominated him arsenic the liable driver,' Mr Pyrtz said.
A precise confused Mr Bellette entered into a outgo program to spot distant astatine the monolithic debt, and lone uncovered what appears to person happened with Mr Pyrtz's help.
Under Victorian instrumentality knowingly providing mendacious oregon misleading accusation successful a information connection is an offence.
Penalties of $9,000 and imaginable nonaccomplishment of licence use successful each lawsuit for an individual, portion a concern tin beryllium fined $18,000 successful each case.
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