Also, another six persons have been imputed in a crime of fraud of telecommunications, for being the holders of the contracts of fertilizer with which then there was redistributed the sign or the persons in charge of the receiving communities of neighbors.

The investigation on three arrested (Jesus C.C., of 48 years, Alfredo O.D., of 57; and Antonio G.S., of 47) it began at the beginning of month, after the lawyers of Digitalis + were denouncing in Madrid that his sign was being pirated of "massive" form in several neighbors' communities of Santander.

The Police calculate that the fraud caused to Digitalis + for these three fitters and the communities that were receiving illicitly his payment channels "overcomes with roominess the million euros", because it has been supported for years and atañe to numerous users.

The official critique of the operation points out, in this sense, that the pirateo of the sign of Digitalis + goes back, in some cases, 1991, when the platform was expressing in analogical Channel +.

The Police tell that the owners' communities that were getting for this route the channels of Digital Bonus were making use of a decoder and of a fertilizer acquired of legal form for some of the neighbors or for persons related to the fitters.

Three arrested were taking charge that to redistribute the sign to the rest of the community and they even were offering maintenance contracts of the installation in which, like part of his services, they were offering the visionado openly of the payment channels.

"The companies fitters were insuring themselves this way the attainment of the integral maintenance contract (of the facilities of television of the neighbors' communities), since with the offered services there could not compete those other fitters who were supported inside the legality", add the Police

In this operation, which remains opened, the Brigade of Judicial Police officer of Santander has seized till now four original Digitalis decoders +, four cards descodificadoras, two clocks temporizadores, three remote controls and a modulator of sign.


(Agencies, 27/11/07)