The Councillor for the Fight against Intrusion and Transport, Mariano Juan, has reported that the Consell Insular has ordered, for the first time, a forceful action against intrusion in transport: scrap 38 vehicles that were immobilised after it was found that they were being used as pirate taxis. These vehicles had been immobilised in a depot by order of the Consell and, after some time had passed without the offender paying the fine for removing them, they have been converted into scrap metal.

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The Consell d’Eivissa scraps 38 vehicles

Juan explained that this measure is a sample of what can now be done even in a shorter period (previously it was indeterminate): now it will be two months from the end of the administrative process. This is also one of the requests that the Consell de Eivissa has already announced and recorded as an amendment to the Law of Administrative Simplification that is being processed by Parliament and which, at the request of Eivissa, also incorporates the increase in the amount of fines for pirate taxis, from 6. 6,000 to 15,000 euros, the payment of 100% of the fine for the return of the vehicle, a fine for capturing clients in Whatsapp groups and the collaboration of local councils through local police and detectives infiltrated as clients.

‘We don’t want those who act as pirate taxi drivers to think that they can do whatever they want, it won’t be profitable for them to continue what they are doing,’ said the councillor. Juan recalled that the Inspection Plan for Illegal Transport continues and the inspectors, with the help of the island’s town councils and private detectives, are still looking for offenders. At the end of the season, there will be an overall balance of these inspections but so far, up to June, 150,666 euros have been collected in transport fines. By the end of 2023, a total of 498,082 euros in fines had been collected and 107 vehicles were immobilised.

There are currently 49 vehicles immobilised.

Juan has advanced that the Consell de Ibiza is working on strong measures against illegal transport and one of them is the tender for the service of private detectives for the next season to complete the inspection service of the Consell definitively with that ‘surprise effect’ that has given such good results.