Taxi service InDrive will stop working in Russia

The service for ordering a taxi InDrive will stop working in Russia – instead, an analogue called Drivee has appeared. About it writes TASS, citing a source familiar with the company’s activities.

“The Russian branch has left the contour of the international ride-hailing [такси] InDrive service back in June 2022 and, de facto, began to develop independently. In May 2023, the Russian service team decided to completely restart the business under a new name – Drivee,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Drivee is already available on the App Store, Google Play and App Gallery. After downloading the app, you can transfer all your data from InDrive to Drivee. The source did not report the timing of the final termination of the InDrive application in the Russian Federation.

April 10 InDrive amid sanctions accepted the decision to transfer the main Russian legal entity “Software Development Center” to the Kazakh company “Indels”. Then reported it RBC.

The newspaper wrote that under the name Indels, the company plans to provide urban and international transportation services in Russia and the CIS countries. According to SPARK, the main Russian legal entity was transferred to Softforming LLC in August 2022. In early February of this year, the new owner of this company was the Indels legal entity registered in Kazakhstan, which belongs to the former operating director of InDrive in Russia Marina Arzhakova and three other individuals .

The fact that the decision to separate Russian and international business was made against the backdrop of sanctions was then told to RBC by a source in the IT market.