“Not valid for the carriage of persons or property for compensation or hire”.
If you can prove he received compensation and this doesn’t need to have been monies...then he’s toast. Free hotel rooms, free dinners, free vacations it’s all “compensation” in the eyes of the regulatory overlords.
By why this passive aggressive attitude?
Report him to the CAA with appropriate evidence and let them take care of it.
* Don’t feel bad about it either. These people are the scourge of our industry taking jobs always from people that have gone through great expense and sacrifice to become the correctly certificated professionals they are.
Who knows, you may save a life....
https://news.sky.com/story/emiliano-...aller-12115260