Colombia's commerce regulator said it would fine ride-hailing company Uber Technologies more than US$629,000 for obstructing a regulatory visit in 2017.
Reuters noted Uber had repeatedly drawn the ire of authorities in Colombia where use of the service is widespread but illegal.
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The country had not specifically regulated transport services like Uber, but had said it would suspend for 25 years the licences of drivers caught working for the platform.
The fine from the superintendency of industry and commerce said Uber urges employees not to give information to regulators and to block access to company computers. Those policies were implemented during the October 2017 visit, the regulator said, according to Reuters.
"The company presented a disrespectful and obstructive attitude in the face of different information requirements on the part of officials," the regulator said in a statement cited by the news agency.
Uber said in a statement it had not been officially informed of the fine but would examine it once it has been.
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By GlobalDataThe fine also cited three Uber staffers by name, individually fining them between $1,469 and $7,344.
The two legal staffers and one manager "collaborated and executed the obstruction of the mentioned administrative visit and the incompletion of the orders and instructions imparted by the superintendency", the statement said.
"It is also proven that these people gave evasive and incomplete declarations about their roles and functions inside the company, and about their knowledge of the corporate structure of Uber Colombia," it added.
Reuters noted that, in July, Colombia ordered Uber to improve its data security in reaction to a 2016 breach that compromised the data of 267,000 Colombians.
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