National Police Disbanded an organization dedicated to the fraudulent distribution of audiovisual content in Alicante, Seville, Malaga and Madrid, which had more than 18,300 pirated television customers and caused economic losses of more than 366 million euros to broadcasting rights holders. During the operation, 8 people were arrested for membership in a criminal organization and crimes against intellectual property. Three people arrested in Alicante Valladolidone of them Malaga and the other Seville.
The organization is a high degree of technological specialization and we managed the services Operational centers located in the provinces of Alicante and Seville. They managed audiovisual sports content for clients remotely from these centres.
Access to movies and sports events
According to the police, the investigation began in February 2022, when this criminal organization was detected trying to provide fake multimedia content from two operational centers. via IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), “to provide its customers with access to movies, TV series, sports events, etc. at a price well below the market price by installing fake applications on tvBox, smartTV and smartphones.”
The organization offered illegal services telecommunications consulting company It had a solid marketing structure at its service. Members of the criminal network were based in the provinces of Alicante, Malaga and Valladolid, and their missions were: market fraud servicesto maximize the number of potential customers to be obtained and, as a result, to cause serious economic damage to the main victims of such illegal activities.
The economic damage was experienced by the owners of the rights to publish the multimedia content they published. The police remind that both the members of this collapsed criminal organization and the individuals who hired fraudulent services under investigation are active parties in harming the main victims of these activities through well-known methods. loss of profitIt refers to the profits that the injured parties can no longer obtain as a result of the criminal activities being investigated and is estimated as follows: 366,250,000 euros.
four records
Once everyone involved in the conspiracy had been identified, the Police carried out four entries and searches in Alicante, Valladolid, Malaga and Seville; two of them were in operations centers where they managed the entire computer infrastructure that allowed them to gain illicit access to multimedia. Payment content (movies, TV series, football,…) to more than 18,300 customers. Researchers succeeded eliminate entire IT infrastructure During the searches they used, a lot of computer equipment such as computers, tablets, smartphones and storage devices were seized.