The court suspended the operation of the luxury taxi service Wheely, which refused to hand over geolocation to the authorities

for 90 days The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow suspended the operation of the elite taxi service Wheely after refusing to transfer the real-time geolocation of its cars to the authorities. this . reports Meduza

The company was accused of failure to comply with the demands of the prosecutor's office (Article 17.7 of the Administrative Code). She was given the maximum sentence.

During the coronavirus epidemic, the Moscow mayor's office prohibited the operation of car ordering services without a taxi license. founder Wheely Anton Chirkunov was outraged by this decision in an open letter to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Soon the authorities promised to lift the restrictions, demanding in return that information about the location of all cars be transmitted in real time. “Providing this data for us means betraying our passengers,” Chirkunov responded , calling the actions of the mayor’s office illegal.

“If the address of the passenger is known - and this could be a lawyer, a journalist, or a politician - then it is not difficult to track all trips from this point and establish when and where he went, with whom he met,” the businessman pointed out.

However, on May 14, the service resumed operation. “We don’t share your data,” the company insisted.