The absence of licence plates was not the only irregularity found on the Ferrari of Thor Batista when it was seized by police on Saturday.

Thor is the twenty year old son of South America’s richest businessman and 8th richest man in the world, Eike Batista, and has a history of misadventure with fast cars.

On Saturday March 17, Thor was driving his Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren sports car in a Rio de Janeiro suburb when he hit and killed a cyclist,  30-year-old labourer, Wanderson Pereira da Silva, who died instantly. Thor passed a breathalyser test at the scene and was not arrested.

The following Monday, Thor signed up to Twitter and began sending tweets proclaiming his innocence. Forbes magazine reported on the Tuesday that he had already posted 63 tweets.

His father’s account was immediately taken over by his corporate team who posted that: “Thor was at the speed limit, did a breathalyzer test and signed a statement describing the accident,” and…