New arrest of taxi driver for overcharging

Another taxi operator has been arrested successful cardinal Athens for overcharging customers, constabulary said Thursday, successful the 2nd such incidental successful arsenic galore days.

A constabulary statement said the suspect was taken into custody Thursday aft allegedly demanding treble the ineligible fare – €15 alternatively of 7.5 – to thrust from Lycabettus Hill to Monastiraki Square successful the metropolis center.

Police said the suspect had covered the taximeter so that the true complaint was not visible, and had tampered with it so that it didn’t contented ineligible receipts unless helium took specific action.

The 50-year-old was arrested Wednesday. 

On Tuesday, constabulary detained a cabbie who allegedly demanded €45 from customers helium had taken from Monastiraki Square to the larboard of Piraeus – much than twice the ineligible complaint for the way astatine that clip of day. The antheral had allegedly not switched connected the metre successful his cab