FURTHER action could be taken against two luxury car hire companies after one of their directors was jailed last week.

Environment has sought further legal advice after other factors came to light in the case against Universal Limos and Guernsey Chauffeur Drive director Malcolm Margo. He was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice and using public service vehicles without a licence and jailed for three months.

A taxi driver who did not wish to be named said he had raised the matter of the companies’ use of unlicensed vehicles with the department in December 2005. Letters had been exchanged since. A department spokesman said the matter had been referred to the Law Officers from the outset.

‘If the department receives complaints regarding the circulation of a vehicle for hire without the necessary licences then those complaints are investigated, in the first instance by the department, and where there is sufficient evidence to suggest a cause for concern, that evidence is forwarded to the Law Officers for further investigation,’ he said.