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Somali driving license cheating is allowed stopped - Umeå Taxi new employee
Domestic

February 1, 2022

at 08.30

Samnytt has previously written about how Somalis without a B driving license and taxi ID worked as professional drivers at Umeå Taxi. Now they have had to leave the company and Umeå Taxi is looking for new people. The company promises that the new employees will now go through an in-house training. The site manager Mikael Thyni, municipal politician for the Moderates, does not want to comment on whether the company plans to do something different in the future. The company's taxis not only drive private individuals, they also have several agreements with Umeå municipality for school transport for ordinary students and special school students.

The Swedish Tax Agency does not check whether the person who wants to get an ID card in a certain identity is the same person who is in the picture linked to that identity in the Swedish Migration Agency's database. If you bring an approved certifier , you can choose which identity you want an ID card in with your own picture on the ID card. You can bring such an ID card with you to the Swedish Transport Administration and identify yourself when you write a driving test.

After obtaining a driving license and taking a taxi driver's ID, all you have to do is report the loss to the Swedish Transport Agency. After receiving a "basic document" sent home from the Swedish Transport Agency, you can choose to send in a picture of a friend instead of a picture of yourself. Then the friend has received a "genuine" driver's license and a "genuine taxi driver's ID" without having passed any driving tests.

Local media obscures Umeå Taxi's brand
It was with the methodology above that Somalis who did not take any driving tests themselves could start driving taxis in five taxis in Umeå Taxi's vehicle fleet. The scheme is not easy to see through for an employer who is looking for a professional driver to hire.

Samnytt has repeatedly requested an account from Umeå Taxi's side regarding how they view what has happened. Among other things, we have wondered if the company plans to change its routines so that something similar can not happen in the future. We have also asked if they have any good tips for other taxi operators in retrospect so that they will not be deceived in the same way. In addition, we have wondered if they have any views on the Swedish Transport Agency's routines in this area.

Umeå Taxi is part of the company Cabonline. The local site manager in Umeå is the moderate municipal politician Mikael Thyni . The local newspaper Västerbottens-Kuriren has previously had a small notice about the case without mentioning which taxi company it is about. Other local media do not seem to have taken up the matter. Almost no Umeå residents should therefore be aware that Somalis who bought a B driving license and taxi ID without conducting a driving test themselves worked as professional drivers for Umeå Taxi.

Drive Umeå's school buses
In addition to driving private individuals, who to some extent can be said to be able to choose for themselves who they agree to step into a taxi with, Umeå Taxi has, among other things, long had a contract for school transport for Umeå municipality's special school students . Umeå Taxi / Cabonline now also handles school transport for ordinary students.

New drivers will receive training
Now Umeå Taxi is looking for new drivers. The company writes that no driver should now be able to start driving a taxi just by coming and waving a taxi driver's ID. They must also undergo Umeå Taxi's internal training