Virgin TV pirates’ ringleader stripped of more than £7,000 in illegal earnings

[joe516]

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

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[The Dentist]

If they were making say 50 quid profit on the 120 quid they sold for, 50x 44,000 is 2.2million. So 5years and a share of 2.2mil minus 7k aint too bad but I would guess the 44,000 figure is way over estimated.

 

[tlogic]

They just got to greedy.

 

[gsmtech]

When they say "raided a business" anyone know where theyre referring to ? Not a certain Satellite shop in Nuneaton is it ?