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Man gets 3.5 years in jail for stealing over 1,000 shared bikes
If you ever wonder why China’s shared bike industry did not live up to early promises of success, look no farther than a court case in Guangdong province.
On Wednesday, a man, surnamed Huang, was sentenced by a court in Guangzhou to three and a half years in prison and ordered to pay 200,000 yuan ($29,000) in compensation for stealing more than 1,000 shared bicycles.
Huang was arrested following a report received by Mobike of a large number of shared bike parts found at a recycling plant in the city of Qingyuan. This lead led police to Huang’s door in Guangzhou.
Theft has always been a concern with China’s dockless shared bikes. In the heady days of 2017, one bike-sharing startup went out of business in just six months after the 90 percent of the company’s fleet of bicycles went missing.
In a perhaps shortsighted move, the bikes had not been equipped with GPS.
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