Roskomnadzor entered the Wheely website into the register of prohibited

Wheely was required to remove prohibited information from the site. The COURT recognized as such information about the operation of the service “without accredited branches or representative offices in RUSSIA,

Roskomnadzor entered the website of the Wheely premium taxi service into the unified register of prohibited information, RBC was told in the press service of the department.

The measure was taken on the basis of the decision of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow. He declared prohibited information posted on the Wheely website. We are talking about information "on the conduct of commercial activities by a legal entity without accredited branches or representative offices in Russia, as well as without providing information to the state information system" Unified Regional Navigation and Information System of Moscow "(GIS ERNIS)".

In accordance with the law, the owner of the Internet resource must delete the prohibited information within 24 hours after receiving the request. If this does not happen, access to the site will be restricted.

RBC turned to Wheely for comment.

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Wheely premium taxi service appeared in 2010, it was founded by Anton Chirkunov. First, the service launched in London, and then the company opened a branch in Moscow. Wheely differs from taxi aggregators in that it does not cooperate with taxi services, but provides its premium cars.

In August 2020, a court in Moscow suspended Wheely for 90 days. The reason was the refusal of the company to transfer data on the movement of cars to the Unified Regional Navigation and Information System of the Capital (ERNIS). The Moscow prosecutor's office considered that against the background of the CORONAVIRUS pandemic, this could lead to "complication of the epidemiological situation in the city" and threaten the safety of passengers.

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Wheely disagreed with the decision. According to Chirkunov, the requirement to transfer data appeared back in 2017 and is not related to the pandemic, and the information received “will make it possible to constantly monitor any driver and, indirectly, a passenger.” According to the service, the requirements of the Moscow authorities are contrary to the Constitution and federal law, but do not prevent the spread of covid-19 .

Wheely challenged the decisions of the court, and in December of the same year the Court of Cassation overturned it "due to the failure to prove the circumstances on the basis of which the decisions were made."