Public protector asks for help in investigating illegal minibus conversions
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has asked the minibus taxi industry for information to help her investigate how panel vans were illegally converted into minibus taxis for public transport. Her office said on Wednesday she called on taxi operators who "knowingly or inadvertently acquired Toyota Quantum panel vans that have allegedly been converted illegally into minibus taxis to approach her office". "It has come to (her) attention that unscrupulous businesses sell such vehicles to taxi operators in hard cash‚ as opposed to credit‚ to evade the stringent measures that are able to detect and thwart this fraudulent practice. "We call on all the affected taxi operators who bought such illegally converted vehicles from 2005 to date to approach the public protector’s offices in the provinces and at head office." The call applied to vehicles bought as new or used and those acquired at auctions. The investigation was launched in 2012 after a complaint that vehicles were allegedly modifi...
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