Soviet Parking Debt Up to $7 Million in District of Columbia
Soviet Embassy workers and their families owe the District of Columbia about $7 million in parking ticket fines, a city spokeswoman says.
The unpaid tickets were written over the last three years on cars in the embassy’s 250-vehicle fleet, city spokeswoman Schanolia Barnes said Tuesday. About $3-million worth of tickets was written in the last year.
Embassy spokesman Georgi Oganov said he’s not sure all tickets have to be paid, especially tickets for parking violations committed near the embassy.
“With these violations, we are compelled to commit them, because we just have no place to park,” he said.
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