Applicants stand inside an Uber Technologies Inc. office during a driver recruitment event in Hong Kong
The Public Security Police Force (PSP) announced that there are nine court cases currently being prosecuted involving the ride-sharing application Uber. All About Macau reported that 357 drivers were notified, the cases of which all occurred over the course of the last year.
Following the launch of the application last October, the police issued fines to a large number of Uber cars. The PSP has maintained the stance that the application is illegal in Macau, since a vehicle must be duly registered as a taxi before a driver can offer someone a ride in exchange for the payment of a fee.
However, in a press conference held in November, Uber representatives said that the service that local travel agencies and their drivers are providing to the consumers in Macau through Uber is in full compliance with the law. The company said that it would file a complaint to the police and to the Commission Against Corruption over the “unjustified fines and impounding of their cars.” Uber is still operating, apparently against the will of local authorities.
When questioned by the media organization Jornal Do Cidadão, the head of the division of Transportation Management of the Transport Bureau, Tsang Cheung Hin said that the Transport Bureau (DSAT) will cooperate with the police to identify drivers providing illegal services.
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