(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Â A taxi driver, working for a public transport company, who used a social services credit card meant for the elderly and special needs passengers, has been charged by the Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution with using and benefiting from someone else's document illegally.
The cabbie, an Asian, who allegedly used the card illegally to get Dh25,000, was ordered by the court to be remanded in police custody for a week pending investigation.
The electronic system of the transport regulatory system had disclosed that someone had illegally used the social services credit card of a special needs person.
Investigations revealed the accused had used the card, provided by the Abu Dhabi government to elderly citizens and to people with special needs that allows them to pay only 50 per cent of their taxi fare, with other passengers as well. After dropping them to their destinations and receiving from them the full amount of the taxi fare, he used the card in the card reader to avail the 50 per cent discount of the total amount and put it in his personal account.
By doing so, he possessed the value of the discount, in addition to a 25 per cent allowance given by the Taxis Regulatory Centre to cabbies as encouragement for transporting the special needs people.
According to court records, the driver was given the card on request of the special needs passenger's mother, who wanted the cabbie to pick and drop her son everyday.
On interrogation by the Public Prosecution, he confessed to using the card with more than one passenger. A source at the office of the Attorney-General pointed out the responsibility of the families of the elderly and persons with special needs on keeping the social service cards carefully and to see that the cards do not fall into the hands of people who may misuse them.
The source called for reporting immediately to the police in case of losing the card, lest the card holder should be liable to legal questioning.
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