The leader of a gang who pirated Virgin cable TV to more than 40,000 users has been ordered to pay back more than £7,000 of illegal profits.
Paul Hartrick was jailed in February over the scam, which broadcast Virgin’s encryption keys to specially-imported cable boxes which could then decode the channels for free.
Hartrick was jailed for five years after pleading guilty, and on Friday Derby magistrates stripped him of £7,623 in cash found when police raided his home in Tamworth and business in Leicestershire.
Hartrick and his accomplices - Melvin Howard, Anthony Ginnivan and Amber Ahmed - sold around 44,000 Starview cable boxes imported from Korea, for £120 each
Paul Hartrick was jailed in February over the scam, which broadcast Virgin’s encryption keys to specially-imported cable boxes which could then decode the channels for free.
Hartrick was jailed for five years after pleading guilty, and on Friday Derby magistrates stripped him of £7,623 in cash found when police raided his home in Tamworth and business in Leicestershire.
Hartrick and his accomplices - Melvin Howard, Anthony Ginnivan and Amber Ahmed - sold around 44,000 Starview cable boxes imported from Korea, for £120 each
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