French Prosecutors Don't Seek Prison Time for Uber Executives in Trial
13 February 2016 - 5:00AM
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PARIS—French prosecutors on Friday asked a court to slap two top
executives of Uber Technologies Inc. with fines and a ban on
running companies, but declined to ask for prison time on charges
during the second day of a trial against the car-hailing
company.
In arguments before a criminal court in Paris's Palais de
Justice, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, head of Uber's operations in
Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Thibaud Simphal, its chief
in France, face six charges on counts including illicit storage of
personal data and operating a service that puts passengers in touch
with car-service drivers who have no professional licenses.
Prosecutor Brigitte Pesquié closed her argument against Uber and
the two executives by saying that she had briefly considered asking
for suspended prison sentences against the two men. Instead she
said she would ask for a five-year ban on either man running a
company, in addition to a €70,000 fine for Mr. Gore-Coty and a
€50,000 fine for Mr. Simphal.
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