Five people responsible for an illegal streaming site dedicated to broadcasting Premier League games (the main English football championship) were sentenced to a total of thirty years and seven months in prison.
A The news was presented in the Premier League itself And, according to the same source, it’s the “biggest indictment against an illegal streaming network.” The sentence was read out at Chesterfield Crown Court and those responsible were convicted of fraud and money laundering.
The Premier League says the five people responsible for the illegal scheme have earned “more than seven million pounds”, around eight million euros, over five years. In total, more than fifty thousand customers and thirty “employees” help those responsible for selling streams and keeping the pirate network active.
In addition to English league football matches, the site offered access to “hundreds of channels from around the world” and “thousands of movies and TV series”.
The “brains” of this operation, Mark Gould, received a harsh sentence: eleven years in prison. An investigation by the authorities revealed further offences: another of the accused, Christopher Felves, was convicted of possessing “indecent images of children”.
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