Italy road traffic fines

johnny46

I was in Bologna in 2017 hired a car with autovia a while later I recieved 3 fines so I appealed  (had to be in italian) heard  nothing for a few months then sent same fines, this time the fines increased I decided to check them out consulted with my mp who tracked the telephone no to a sex shop in bologna I got in touch with car hire they said ignore it it was a mistake, now I have recieved 2 letters from CLI international debt collectors in Kent telling me to pay straight away asap 3 fines totalling £1000 no way I'm paying this. a sex shop not even the police for goodness sake .

twopenny

Debts are sold on. Seldom do they check they've got the right person even. It's an invisible business.

When I moved I got a new number for someone who owed money and got a variety of calls claiming the debts. Telling one I was not that person made no difference.

Do you have anything in writing from when your MP dealt with it? You could try forwarding that to them with a covering letter. Keep copies, dated. Might get through to them.

pogofish

When did Kent leave the UK..?

Italy got shot of this completely when they sold it-on for an undoubted pittance.

Vultures like CLI are fully covered in appropriate forums here already and the very last thing you should be doing is contacting them.  See post four of the Newbies Sticky in Parking Tickets for why and many more threads in Motoring.

eDicky

Usually a car hire firm charges the hirer a service fee for handling a penalty notice. Whether or not you were charged could indicate the authenticity of the offences and fines.

In any case, you have decided not to pay, so make sure you do not communicate with CLI in any way.

epm-84

twopenny said:

When I moved I got a new number for someone who owed money and got a variety of calls claiming the debts. Telling one I was not that person made no difference.

That's just stupid.  Say it was a number for a landline in a student house where a few people are living, they can't just insist the person who picks up the phone is responsible, they should ask for the person by name and only talk to that person.  

sheramber

and the person who knows they are after him denies it is him when he answers.