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A court in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region has ordered a driver, who attempted to bribe a road patrol officer with 200 rubles, to pay a fine of 100,000 rubles ($4,200) a statement from the region’s Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday.

The 43-year-old resident of Tomsk, central Russia, bought a car in the city of Vladivostok and was driving it to Tomsk in February 2008. In the settlement of Nikolayevka, in the Jewish Autonomous Region, he drove on the wrong side of the road while trying to pass another car.

He was pulled over by road patrol police and attempted to bribe the officer who was writing up a report and a ticket. The man’s actions were caught on video by the police surveillance cameras.

An investigative group called by the police seized the money from the driver and the sum was ‘passed to the state revenue’, the statement reported.

The Smidovichsky County’s court ruled that the man must pay the enormous fine after ‘taking into account the crime’s public danger’.

The driver has fully acknowledged his guilt, the statement said.