Obama fined 120 pounds for unpaid London congestion charge

London, July 20(ANI): Johnson has fined the United States 120 pounds (nearly $200 U.S. dollars) in congestion levies--10 pounds per vehicle--for the presidential motorcade used during Obama's state visit in May.

According to The Sun, Obama was hit with the penalty for his motorcade in London.

London Mayor Boris Johnson had wanted the 10-pound congestion fee to be paid for the President's armour-plated limousine and all other cars during his visit.

Johnson is understood to have raised the issue with Obama at a Buckingham Palace banquet during his visit.

The supposed transgression is challenged by the US, which sees the charge as a tax from which diplomatic vehicles are exempt under the 1960 Vienna Convention.

Transport For London, meanwhile, has a policy of charging on any and all vehicles with foreign plates, even diplomatic ones. (ANI)