Russell Williams, the convicted murderer, rapist and former Canadian Forces colonel who is collecting a $60,000 annual military pension, has apparently not paid $8,000 in victim surcharge fines.

CTV reports that a collection agency is trying to get the money from Williams who is serving two life sentences in Kingston Penitentiary after being convicted for the first-degree murders and rapes of two Ontario women, as well as sexual assaults and more than 80 fetish-related burglaries.

“He has a pension — most offenders don’t have pensions,’’ said Steve Sullivan, executive director of Ottawa Victims Services. Normally, judges waive the victim surcharge in these cases, he said, usually because the convicted criminals don’t have the money to pay it.

“He would certainly be aware of this surcharge,’’ said Sullivan. “It was part of his sentence, he owes the money. If he has the ability to pay it and it’s a conscious choice not to pay, it certainly raises questions whether there’s any remorse.”

The $8,000 that Williams owes would go to the Ontario Victim Services Secretariat which funds various services for crime victims, like rape crisis centres.

Working in victim services, Sullivan says he finds it a “little tough to swallow’’ that Williams is getting a $60,000 military pension.

In May 2010, Williams and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Harriman, split their real estate holdings, leaving Williams as the sole owner of the couple’s cottage in Tweed, bought for $178,000 in 2004. Harriman was listed as the sole owner of the couple’s Ottawa townhouse, purchased in 2010 for $693,819.