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Uber pays $2.6 million to settle Dutch case

It includes fine and giving back revenue earned from the service in the Netherlands

Reuters March 09, 2019 Less than a minute read

The Uber logo is seen on mobile telephone in London, Britain, September 25, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

Uber has paid around 2.3 million euros ($2.6 million) in a settlement after it was found to have offered an unlicensed taxi service in the Netherlands in 2014-2015, Dutch prosecutors said on Friday.

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The settlement over Uber’s “UberPop” service - in which people with no taxi license transport passengers in their own cars and use Uber software to find customers and handle payments - included both a fine and giving back revenue earned from the service in the Netherlands.

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