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Northampton man caught operating taxi company with forged licence

A Northampton taxi driver has been prosecuted for operating a private hire company using a forged licence.

The 30-year-old man, appeared at Northampton Magistrates Court last Tuesday and pleaded guilty to offences under the Fraud Act 2006, Forgery & Counterfeiting Act 1981 and no insurance.

After being found guilty on all three charges, the man was sentenced to a Community Service Order for 12 months 60 hours unpaid work for false instrument under the Fraud Act, a Community Service Order for 12 months 60 hours unpaid work for making a false document under the Forgery & Counterfeiting Act, eight points on his DVLA licence for having no insurance, a £300 fine for costs and a £60 victim surcharge.

Cabinet member for Community Safety, Cllr Mike Hallam, said: "Having fully licensed vehicles , operators and drivers who work to ensure the safety of Northampton residents is very important to us.

"As part of our commitment to keeping our night time economy and public transport safe, we carry out regular checks and enforcements and we hope prosecutions will act as a deterrent to other people from committing offences in the future."

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what just 60 hours community service

soft sentence or what ?

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Surely this guy will be getting hit by HMRC AND proceeds of crime proceedings?

Not necessarily depends if he's been using the loopholes in the companies act if his business was registered as a company and he dissolves it after moving the assets into his bank account nobody can touch him

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Yeah right.

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