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| VIP Taxi rank in Greece |
Police
have busted a phony VIP taxi service in Greece that was using the bank accounts
of homeless people to collect deposits from cab drivers, according to the Greek
Reporter.
Greek Police spokesman Christos
Parthenis said Monday that seven people have been arrested.
They
are accused of taking more than 110,000 euros (US$141,300) in deposits from
drivers who were promised a customer list that would include officials from the
European Commission and the World Health Organization.
Parthenis
said a 66-year-old man and 39-year-old woman, both Greek, were accused of
paying panhandlers and homeless people in Athens to use their bank accounts to
collect the deposits.
Taxi drivers, approached
around the country, typically paid a 1,500 euro (US$1,925) deposit to join the
service, which promised to pay them 300 (US$385) a day for at least a month.
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