Flawless IPTV: Men Behind UK’s Largest Pirate Service Jailed For 30+ Years
Read More →Trading under the names Flawless, Shared VPS and Optimal (also known as Cosmic), the fraudulent operations generated in excess of £7 million in just five years. The illegal streaming businesses [...]
Illicit streaming fraudsters jailed
Read More →FACT instigated investigation leads to over 10 years total prison sentences Hampshire County Council Trading Standards and FACT have welcomed a successful outcome in the courts relating to the illegal [...]
Two-year prison sentence for man convicted of selling illegal streaming devices
Read More →A man who pleaded guilty to supplying set-top-boxes which illegally provided access to premium pay TV content has been jailed for two years, in the latest in a series of actions designed to crackdown on illegal streaming.
Seller of illegal streaming services ordered to pay over £10,000
Read More →A man has received a 16-month prison sentence and has been ordered to pay over £10,000 after he pleaded guilty to five offences at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates Court. In 2019 [...]
Three sellers of illegal streaming devices jailed for a total of 17 years for defrauding Premier League
Read More →Three sellers of illegal streaming devices have been jailed for a total of 17 years for conspiracy to defraud; some of the longest sentences ever issued for piracy-related crimes.
£13,000 recovered from convicted trader after re-offending
Read More →The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) has secured the repayment of more than £13,000 from William Marston, a convicted trader, after he had evaded payment for over two years.
Five year jail sentence for operator of major illegal streaming service
Read More →Mr John Haggerty, the owner of Evolution Trading, today appeared in Newcastle Crown Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud and dishonestly obtaining services for another, contrary to the Fraud Act.
Fraudster jailed for running football website
Read More →The creator of a website which illegally screened live Premiership football matches over the internet has been sent to prison for two years. Kevin Broughton was sentenced at Sheffield Crown [...]
Penryn man running ‘cottage industry’ in fake DVDs and CDs jailed for a year
Read More →A prolific counterfeiter has been jailed after brazenly ripping off thousands of movies, cds and computers games. Paul Sorren, of Permarin Road, Penryn, was sentenced to 12 months behind bars [...]
Man jailed in £460,000 CD and DVD fraud
Read More →A LANCASHIRE man has been jailed for three years and ten months for the sale of counterfeit DVDs, CDs and MP3s, which yielded almost half a million pounds. Lester Hawkes, [...]
London pirate DVD trader jailed for 18 months
Read More →A trader has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after admitting making and possessing for sale almost 5,000 fake copies of DVDs from his video shop located at 6 Dunton [...]
Four year prison sentence for illegal website owner
Read More →A website owner who created and ran one of the world’s most popular pirate websites has been sentenced to four years imprisonment today at Newcastle Crown Court. Anton Vickerman, age [...]
