Car-sharing service car2go temporarily halts Chicago operations after 50 Mercedes stolen from fleet.
, 50 of which were Mercedes-Benz vehicles, officials with the Chicago Police Department said in a statement. The cars may have been rented by deceptive or fraudulent means through car2go's mobile app, police said.
Mike Mikos, CFO car2go N.A., Olivier Reppert, Global CEO of car2go Group GmbH, and Paul DeLong, CEO of car2go N.A. arrive at the car2go launch event, July 25, 2018, in Chicago. Several vehicles have been recovered, and persons of interest are being questioned, police said, adding that the recoveries appear to be isolated to Chicago's West Side.
Car2go -- which now goes by the name SHARE NOW -- tweeted Wednesday afternoon that service had been temporarily paused as the company works with law enforcement to "neutralize a fraud issue." Users' information was not compromised, the company said. We are working with law enforcement to neutralize a fraud issue. No personal or confidential member information has been compromised. As a precaution, we are temporarily pausing our Chicago service. We will provide updates as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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