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WORLDWIDE TAXI FOCUS from Finland
PARIS CABBIE DELIVERS SUITCASE WITH GIRL’S BODY INSIDE
A woman suspected of killing, torturing and raping a young girl before stuffing her abused body in a trunk made a taxi driver her unwilling accomplice by hailing a ride to transport the youngster’s corpse. Dahbia B, 24, who investigators say is an Algerian citizen who had been living illegally in Paris, is alleged to have committed “harm of a sexual nature” and “other violent acts” that resulted in the death of 12- year-old schoolgirl Lola Daviet. At around 10pm on Friday 14 October, the woman’s friend is said to have ordered a VTC taxi to collect Dahbia, her trunk and two cabin suitcases from the Asnières-sur-Seine district of Paris. The driver was Abdel, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, who drove the murderess for 30 minutes to her destination in the 19th Arrondisement, the residence of Lola's parents. Speaking with Le Parisien, Abdel remembered how the suspect coolly questioned him while riding in the backseat with a child’s corpse just a few feet behind her. “She asks me how the job is going for me, if I have clients, if it's going well,” he told the French outlet. “I tell her that it’s fine and I ask her what she does for a living”. After telling him she worked for Uber Eats, he asked whether it was a busy job, to which she said she’d prefer to keep that detail “for myself”. Abdel said he’s been left “traumatised” by the presence of the corpse of little Lola just in the back in the trunk. At the start of the journey, Abdel offered the friend help with loading the case into the boot, but was told “not to touch the trunk”. Dahbia B has been charged with the murder of a 12- year-old minor accompanied by rape of a minor, torture or acts of barbarism and concealment of a corpse and is currently being held on remand at a prison close to Paris.
PHTM NOVEMBER 2022
FINNISH TAX AUTHORITIES UNCOVER €8.7M UNREPORTED TAXI REVENUES
The Finnish Tax Administration has uncovered millions of euros’ worth of un- reported sales and unreported wages during stepped-up surveillance of taxi firms since the spring of 2021. Officials took a closer look at 850 taxi entrepreneurs, drivers and accounting firms that handled paperwork for them. They found 8.7 million euros of income that had not been accounted for along with 4.3 million euros’ worth of other errors that affected taxable income levels. Authorities also detected almost three million euros’ worth of “dark salaries”. According to Jarmo Lahdenperä, a senior adviser at the Tax Administration specialising in the grey economy and tax fraud, typical forms of tax evasion include failing to record cash sales in the company’s accounting, or not recording a month’s worth of driving.
Some operators also intentionally misuse or tamper with taxi meters in an effort to deceive tax officials. During the crackdown, the Tax Administration teamed up with police, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom and Regional State Administrative Agencies to inspect 500 taxi operators around the country. The results indicate that not all cabbies who engage in taxi operations through international app systems are aware that it is their own responsibility to report the income received from taxi operations to the Tax Administration. Such applications include Uber and Yango. “Many mistakenly think that the international company running the platform will report the income of all taxi operators to the tax administration of each country. This is not the case. The taxi operator is responsible for making sure that all income is reported to us,” Lahdenperä said in a recent statement.
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