22yrs old World's second youngest billionaire get £23,000 fine for drink-driving with her Roll Royce in Oslo (Details, pics)

A 22-year-old billionaire has been fined 250,000 kroner (£23,000) for drink-driving while on her way to her family's ski resort chalet in Hafjell.

But the second-youngest billionaire in the world could have been fined up to 40 million kroner (£3,673,319) in Norway, where penalties are based on offenders' assets.

Katharina Andresen is estimated to be the country's richest woman, with Forbes putting her fortune at $1.23 billion.

The student avoided an even bigger payout because her assets 'have not yielded any dividend yet'.

Though she has had a 42 per cent share in her family's investment company since her father gifted it to her in 2007, she has no fixed income.

She was also banned from driving for 13 months after appearing at Oslo City Court.

Andresen was found to be three times over the legal limit when she was breathalysed more than an hour after being stopped, according to Norwegian newspaper VG.

She was handed suspended prison sentence of three weeks and told financial newspaper Finans advice that she had believed herself to be under the blood alcohol level of 0.02.

'I thought I had waited long enough not to be over the limit any more,' she said. 'I am very sorry.'

Her family’s fortune stems from its purchase of Norwegian tobacco firm JL Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrik in 1859.

Back in 2004, a Norwegian woman was fined a record 500,000 kroner (£39,000) for drink-driving, according VG.

She had drunk up to 11 glasses of wine in a bar in the country's capital before driving off and hitting three parked vehicles in just 100 metres of road.

The country's legal limit of 0.02 is one of the strictest in Europe, with the legal limit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland set at 0.08.

STRICT DRINK-DRIVING PUNISHMENTS ACROSS THE WORLD

In the United Arab Emirates, the offence of drink-driving is punished not by a fine - but by 80 lashes.

In South Africa, drivers caught behind the wheel after having more than 0.005 grams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood face a 10-year jail sentence, fines of up to £6,600 or both.

Manchester City midfielder and devout Muslim Yaya Toure was famously landed with what was thought to be the UK's biggest ever drinking fine of £54,000 in 2016.The teetotal player was fined one week's wages and banned from driving after unwittingly drinking brandy mixed with Coke while he was at a party.

Drink-driving in Taiwan is punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of $6,700 if the offender avoids an accident. In the case of an accident the sentence jumps to seven years and causing death incurs a 10-year sentence.

Norway calculates drink-driving fines on the basis of 1.5 times the monthly salary of the criminal in question. In 2003 a car importer was fined the equivalent of £18,365.662 for drink-driving through Oslo in his Rolls-Royce.