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To prevent fraud, passengers would use biometrics. This was announced after grant transfers suspension
Roulette was used in Niteroi idea is to adopt a similar model - Pedro Teixeira / O Globo Agency (06/26/2014)
RIO - The 4.5 million users of the Single Ticket intercity will have to make a new account, which will include the identification of your digital biometric access to the bus. The move, announced on Monday by the state Transportation Department, aims to combat fraud in the system. There is still no date for the start of the re-registration. The measures set out in a bill that will be sent to the Legislative Assembly of Rio (Alerj). The proposal depends on an approval in the House to be regulated.
The secretariat should install enrollment stations in places of great flow of passengers, such as road and ferry terminals and the Central Brazil. Within a few days educational campaigns should be launched.
According to the State Transportation Secretary, Carlos Roberto Osorio, one of the objectives of the bill is to prevent fraudsters use Single Ticket cards in two intercity buses. Since biometrics serve to prevent the card from being used by others.
- We ask the user to report the fraudster. Information can be passed to our ombudsman (2333 8664) or the hotline (2253 1177) - directed Osorio.
CONTROLLING CREATION
The Department of Transportation announced the measure after the State Court of Auditors (ECA) have determined, on Thursday, the suspension of subsidy transfers of bus tickets for lack of transparency. In addition, ECA technical irregularities detected in the system in the second half of 2014 as Single Ticket cards issued with social security numbers of children under 5 years.
To monitor and supervise the transactions made by users and public transport operators, the department also created the Comptroller General of the Single Ticket. The Civil Police undertook to initiate a fraud-fighting work in the system - an investigation was initiated by the Bureau of defrauding.
Among the complaints investigated are cases of difference in the use of the card fraudsters selling credits in bus and intercity vans validating an amount of up passenger capacity tickets.
An audit of the Secretary of Transportation has identified the improper use of cards Single Tickets on intercity lines long distance routes with incompatible with each other. An example is detected by a validated card on intercity line 127 c (Candelaria-Mage, with rate of R $ 9.50), which was used in integration with other intercity bus, the 251-B (Candelaria-Alcantara, with passage to R $ 7.50). In this case, the allowance paid by the state was R $ 11.
GRANTS R $ 543 MILLION
According to Carlos Roberto Osorio, the state pays subsidies to RioCard (company operating the cards) weekly. In the year 2014, transfers totaled R $ 543 million.
- The state has an account linked to RioCard to pass on public resources. Weekly, is made a balance between what the state paid and what was actually used. Each week, we pay, on average, US $ 12 million in grants. We need to prevent fraud - said the secretary.
According to Osorio, Single Ticket credits expire in that there are no public funds.
- On the card, there is never balance of public money, as we do a weekly balance sheet and the value we pass one day after the payment of the passage. What remains is the user money, and on this we have no control - Osorio said.
Source: The Globe
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