A luxury car with the fines to match

When authorities towed a $160,000 Maserati Cambiocorsa in London, they assumed the owner would show up to pay his many parking tickets and fees.

But Bertrand Des Pallieres, a wealthy Parisian hedge fund manager, didn’t.

Three months later, the Evening Standard newspaper contacted him, telling him the Maserati was about to be auctioned.

Des Pallieres, 39, was quoted as saying he had been traveling on business. He said he didn’t have a secretary at the time to look after “domestic things” -- such as the approximately $10,000 he reportedly owed in unpaid parking tickets and other fines and fees.

A spokesman for the towing company said, “Assuming he pays the fines, he should get the car back soon.”