Four accused in the operation Hook, which in 2001 dismantled in the Islands a forgers' supposed network of cards of television of payment and of phones, face sorrow that four years after prison come and to the indemnifications payment at the price of thousands of euros

The different accusations presented at the procedure opened immediately after the called Operation Hook of the National Police request sorrow that come up to four years of prison for four assumptions involved in the swindle (three foreigners and a Fuerteventura neighbor), which it affected in 2001 to the Channel profit +, Phone companhy, Digital Satellite channel and Digital Route.

The representative of the Attorney General's office formulates accusation for a falsity continuous crime in mercantile document or alternatively of manufacture of useful electronic for the falsification (article 400 of the Penal code) against the Cuban Marcos Rubén C.R., of 40 years, the Frenchman Francoise C.T., of 34 years, the Englishman Paul R.C., of 60 years, and the neighbor of Fuerteventura Pedro José M.G., of 35 years, and he asks for them for three years of prison. The supposedly affected companies are presented themselves in the process as particular accusations, and request sorrow that range between the three and four years of prison, in addition to indemnifications at the price of thousands of euros.

According to the district attorney, between February and July, 2001 four accused, «in union of other persons who could not be located», were part of an organization «dedicated to the illicit dressmaking and sale of suitable cards for the perception descodificada of sign of television of payment and of suitable cards for the use of public phones, with illicit intention of making a profit».

He adds the report that Marcos Rubén C.R. and Francoise C.T. «they were receiving the computer programs and codes by means of his personal computers and the cards and chips by mail, and in his domicile they were loading these material instruments with the programs, using devices that they were possessing for such an end».

Once suitable the cards, continues the district attorney, «they were selling them to numerous persons, making use of places and licit activities» of TV satellite.

Also, the accused were buying devices decoders abroad not authorized in Spain and were selling them in the islands. He assures the Public Department that Pedro José M.G. was in charge of selling them in Fuerteventura and the Englishman Paul R. C. in Lanzarote.

The judgment will be celebrated after summer in a court of the Penal thing.

And also two users

The process also goes against two individuals that pirates bought the cards to use them in his particular domiciles, a practice much extended in the epoch to which the district attorney alludes. They are accused of falsification and the district attorney asks them to impose each fines for 12.000 euros on them.

1.000 euros card / day

Digital satellite channel and Digital Route ask that six accused indemnizen to the companies in the quantity that it should be the result of multiplying by more than 1.000 euros, which he affirms that it is «it is the economic damage that a card pirataq produces to them a month» for the number of cards quie they seized to the imputed ones, multiplying this number in turn for the months in which it defrauds it it was operative (February - June, 2001).


(Agencies, 18/05/07)