Savisaar: municipal police could help to get rid of taxi mafia

Mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar believes that municipal police could help to stop the mafia-controlled taxi business in central Tallinn. Eesti Päevaleht quoted Savisaar speaking at a radio show yesterday that the city government plans to set up a special department for checking taxis at the municipal police. “The unit must be big enough to check 2,500 taxis driving around in Tallinn,” said the Mayor. Savisaar added that city government has been working hard to come up with solutions to the problem. “We are already developing a unified price list for taxis and plan to increase requirements for issuing a taxi license,” said Savisaar. In early October, popular Estonian TV programme Pealtnägija claimed that the taxi business in central Tallinn was controlled by mafia. Pealtnägija that embedded its own journalist among taxi... [read full story]