They sold television packages in a pirated manner/ 5 subject administrators were arrested, 3 others are being sought

2024-12-19 14:08:00, Kronika CNA

Police Notification:

The operational police plan, coded "Decoder", is developed, with the objective of cracking down on cases of television piracy.

The operational plan, from the Section for the Investigation of Economic and Financial Crimes, in cooperation with the Special Operational Force Sector. This plan, the result of a several-month investigation, carried out under the direction of the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana.

Controls and verifications carried out in implementation of the decision of the Court of Tirana found 7 online entities, in which packages with television channels were sold, in violation of the law.

Also, the Section for the Investigation of Cybercrimes found another subject in this illegality.

5 administrators of these entities are identified and arrested. Efforts are underway to capture the other 3.

45 decoders, 5 transceivers and 4 mobile phones were seized.

10 other subjects have been verified and their activity is currently under investigation.

As part of the coded operational plan "Decoder", citizens AS, 28 years old, AV, 40 years old, AL, 45 years old, F. Ç. alias FB, 28 years old and E. Xh., 33 years old, all residents of Tirana. Also, citizens AQ, 40 years old and A. Sh., 33 years old, both residents of Tirana, were identified and declared wanted.

•Furthermore, within the framework of this operational plan, the Section for the Investigation of Cyber ??Crimes carried out verifications for another online subject, on suspicion of this illegality. At the end of these actions, the subject's administrator, citizen BK, was identified and declared wanted.

From the verifications and investigations so far, it turned out that these citizens were selling packages with television channels online, in violation of the law. They deceived the citizens that they owned the television rights of these channels and through the decoders, they decoded and broadcast the programming.

Efforts are being made to capture the 3 wanted citizens.

Controls and verifications against this illegality, within the police operational plan coded "Decoder", are continuing.

The procedural materials were passed to the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana, for further actions.