Colorado regulators fined Uber US$8.9mil (RM36.78mil), saying the ride-services company allowed 57 people to drive for it although they lacked valid driver's licenses or had committed other offences that would have disqualified them. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission said its probe found violations that included 12 drivers with felony convictions, 17 drivers with major moving-vehicle violations and three drivers with a type of driver's license required after recent drunk-driving convictions. Uber Technologies Inc said in a statement it recently discovered an error in its background check process in Colorado and began working to correct the issue. "This error affected a small number of drivers and we immediately took corrective action," it said. Uber has about 600,000 drivers across the United States.

Source: The Star November 21, 2017 07:30 UTC