It could hardly be more brazen
Taxi driver wants €1499 instead of €14 from Qatar team member
It could hardly be more brazen: a Paris cab driver is said to have charged a representative of an Olympic delegation a whopping €1499 instead of €14 for a short ride!
The representative from Qatar had only wanted a short ride from a restaurant in the city center to the Eiffel Tower, reported the newspaper "Le Parisien" with reference to the police.
The 31-year-old paid the amount of 14 euros shown on the taximeter by credit card and soon discovered the suspected fraud.
1540 euros secretly collected instead of 15.40 euros
A cab driver had already been arrested in Paris last year for allegedly ripping off foreign tourists and, in one case, charging a hundred times the fare himself.
Instead of 15.40 euros, he secretly charged a Spaniard 1540 euros.
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