French court fines Uber and executives
AAP on June 9, 2016, 10:46 pm
Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies and two of its executives have been fined by a French court for running an illegal transport service using non-professional drivers.
The Paris criminal court ordered Uber to pay 800,000 euros ($A1.22 million), half of it suspended, and imposed smaller fines on Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Uber, and Thibaud Simphal, the company's general manager for France.
The case concerned the low-cost Uber POP service, which connected users via a smartphone app with non-professional drivers using their own cars.
Uber has since shut down the service after the government banned it under pressure from licensed taxi drivers.
