Metro

Rogue cabby has license revoked after toll scam

Now it’s time for him to pay the toll.

A rogue cabby has had his hack license revoked today and must pay a $2500 fine for hitting unsuspecting passengers with phantom bridge and tunnel tolls — even for rides within Manhattan.

The cheating rookie hack Emad Anwar Nochy Wanass was found guilty during a city administration hearing today —even though he was a no show.

As The Post first reported today, Taxi and Limousine Commission investigators believe Wanass is among more than a dozen yellow cab drivers to charge customers for bridges and tunnels that were never crossed.

Minutes before he was to plead not guilty this morning in Queens at the city Office of Administrative Hearings he fled the building after being confronted by a Post reporter.

The TLC presented six bogus taxi receipts as evidence at the hearing before Judge Martin Kramer – though officials said Wanass may have ripped off 273 unwitting customers for a total of $620. TLC attorney Sherry Cohen at the hearing said he only needed to be convicted of two overcharges for him to have his license stripped.

Some of the phony toll charges were for cab rides in Manhattan, which prompted administrative Judge Martin Kramer to quip, “As far as I know there are no rivers [to cross].”

Cohen submitted the evidence from two cabs that Wassan drove. They had been downloaded from the GPS system installed in all yellow cabs.

“Nearly every trip you can see there is a toll being charged,” Cohen said of the trip logs.

Wanass’ lawyer Razwin Raja weakly suggested that the meters were defective.

“But the judge shot back, “It seems improbable this poor man found himself in two cabs with defective meters.”