It's normal in our legal system to have a scale of punishment based on the scale of lawbreaking. We don't know enough here to know whether the laws broken in the two cases are of the same scale. Some things are punished with minor fines and others are major fines and possible jail time. The details of the case determine which.

Sorry but looking at these 2 cases from outside makes me want to puke.

I honestly have no idea what you mean here.