Uber rubbishes claims of ID fraud cover-up

Uber claims it has taken driver ID fraud seriously and did not engage in a ‘conspiracy of concealment’, a court heard. The cab-hailing giant argues ‘It had nothing to gain’ by covering up the information and ‘everything to gain’ from being transparent. The identity scandal which allowed passengers to take more than 14,000 trips with bogus drivers began to surface ‘right at the point’ that TFL was considering renewing its licence, it was said. Unauthorised drivers had been using a…