Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner has been fined for various driving offenses.

The Daily Mail says Bendtner has been ordered to pay almost £5,000 in fines after he was caught driving without a licence and insurance.

The Denmark international, who was on-loan to Sunderland last season, was pulled over by police in South Tyneside who discovered the 24-year-old was not insured on his £40,000 Audi and had no driving licence.

Bendtner, who was charged with driving without the correct licence, using a vehicle without insurance and two counts of driving a vehicle with a registration mark that does not conform with regulations was found guilty in his absence by magistrates at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court.

Magistrates fined him £4,750 and added six points to his licence.

The 24-year-old Danish international, who has been linked with a move to Spanish side Celta Vigo at the weekend, was also ordered to pay £85 costs.