They sold television packages through piracy/ Tirana Prosecution sends 5 people to trial

2025-10-11 12:14:00, Aktualitet CNA

They sold television packages through piracy/ Tirana Prosecution sends 5 people

The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, has completed the investigations and has sent to trial five people, citizens F.Ç., AV, E.Xh., AS and AL, for the criminal offenses of 'Computer Fraud' and 'Infringement of Industrial Property Rights' provided for by articles 143/b pg.1 and 149 pg.1 of the Criminal Code.

The Prosecution Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, in cooperation with the Section against Economic Crime at the Tirana Local Police Directorate, proved that these persons, through their companies, deceived citizens as if they had the television rights to these channels.

These individuals, as administrators of their entities, enabled decoding and transmission through decoders. In this way, they generated income by violating the legitimate interests of the television companies that produce the programs and are the owners of the television rights.

The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, through simulated actions of purchases of equipment (decoders) and television packages that these entities traded by advertising on social networks and sold for values ????from 3,500 to 10,000 lek, created reasonable suspicions based on evidence that the entities in question are responsible for committing the criminal offenses of "Computer fraud" and "Violation of industrial property rights", provided for by articles 143/b and 149/a of the Criminal Code./ CNA