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Spartak Zabolotsky, the owner of the Chocolate taxi company, said that more than 90% of the violations recorded during the raids were related to waybills, that is, information about technical and medical examinations.

"Moreover, there may be a certificate of examinations, but it will be issued in violation of deadlines," he believes.

Two taxi driver screening raids took place in the Moscow region. As part of one of them, which took place from January 27 to February 2 in the Moscow region, employees checked 5.8 thousand cars, more than half of those checked became offenders — more than 3 thousand people, administrative materials were issued on them.

During the second one, which was held from February 14 to 16, employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate Moscow revealed 11.4 thousand offenses among taxi drivers.

All over Russia, a huge number of violations in the registration of travel documents for taxi drivers are being revealed, confirmed Valery Korneev, chairman of the Digital World Union of Users of Digital Platforms.

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