Bus fanatic Steven Curl must pay nearly £11,000 after running up a bill with the DVLA by using his employer’s computers.
Curl, of Haverhill, was sacked by AXA Insurance and prosecuted for fraud by abuse of trust after he used its computers to check on the ownership of buses.
Curl, 45, of Pearmain Walk, was given a five-month suspended jail term in November after admitting the charge.
The bus spotter appeared back at Ipswich Crown Court this week for a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
It heard that over nearly two years he contacted the DVLA 3,000 times, at a cost of £3.75 per number plate inquiry.
He ran up a bill of £10,983 which Mr Recorder Simon Spence has ordered him to pay by July 11. If he fails he will be jailed for seven months.
He must also pay an additional £1,200 towards the cost of the prosecution.
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