(1.Mai) The office of U.S. taxi-hailing app Uber in southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was raided on Thursday, with a number of mobile phones seized, a city official confirmed on Friday.
The company is suspected of unlicensed operation and conducting illegal business by allowing private car owners to offer taxi services, an official with the city‘s traffic authority told Xinhua.
The official said Uber was not specifically targeted in the raid, which was part of a comprehensive crackdown on illegal taxi services by private drivers.