Roskomnadzor has entered the website of the service for calling premium Wheely cars into the register of prohibited ones. The regulator told RBC about this.
The agency argues for the adoption of such a measure by the decision of the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, which in August 2020 declared prohibited information about the operation of the service “without accredited branches or representative offices in Russia”, as well as without providing information in Department of Moscow. Then the company was suspended for 90 days.
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In December 2020, the Second Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction overturned this decision “due to the lack of evidence of the circumstances on the basis of which the decisions were made.”
Moscow taxi services were obliged to provide information about drivers and their cars in 2017. In April 2020, due to quarantine, the mayor's office banned passenger transportation in cars without a taxi license. At the same time, permission is issued only to drivers of yellow and white cars, and not to black business-class taxis that make up the Wheely fleet. information about the location of all cars. Taxi service Wheely, founded by Anton Chirkunov, the son of the ex-governor of the Perm Territory, publicly opposed this and resumed work.The prosecutor's office found violations in the operation of the Wheely transportation service, which refused to transfer geolocation to the authorities