Santo Domingo.- A network dedicated to piracy through the illegal resale of signs of renowned television channels and streaming platform service was dismantled by the authorities in the so-called Operation Domo.
He Public Ministry He explained that the operation was made up of a team of 30 prosecutors who headed 19 raids Under the coordination of the General Directorate of Persecution jointly with the Intellectual Property Unit (UPI), the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Crimes and Crimes of High Technology (PEDATEC), the Special Prosecutor’s Office Anti Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and the National District Prosecutor’s Office.
In the raids, practiced in the National District, San Pedro de Macorís and Jarabacoa, electronic equipment, documents and vehicles were occupied.
He Public Ministry He said that the members of the network profit from content resale as television programs, series and movies in violation of copyright.
The investigations established that the detainees are part of a network of six accused, of which four had already been convicted in the United States in 2017 for similar facts of digital piracy.
The network used sophisticated technological mechanisms to violate Security systems of Paga and streaming television platformsoffering illicit subscriptions at national and international level.
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The scheme included payments with cryptocurrencies and the Access resalegenerating Millionaire illicit profits which were then placed in the financial system.
The case adds to the actions aimed by the current management of the Attorney General, Yeni Berenice Reynosoto face the Criminality and crime In all its manifestations.
The operation was carried out in conjunction with members of the Department of Crimes and Crimes of High Technology (DICAT) and the Special Department of Transnational Crimes Investigations (Deidet) of the National Police. In addition, he had the International Cooperation of the National Security Research Office (HSI).
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The members of the network will face charges for Intellectual Property Violation and money launderingcrimes sanctioned in Law 65-00 on copyright, the Law 53-07 on high -tech crimes and crimes, as well as the Law 155-17 against money laundering and terrorist financing.
