2023-05-29 10:35:59
Several arrests have been carried out recently in coordination with Europol, following the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) in the Netherlands busted a major pirate IPTV provider. This has served more than a million customers in Europe and tens of thousands of subscribers in Morocco, making more than 10,000 television channels accessible and a digital film library made up of 15,000 works. Since May 23, the customers concerned no longer receive a signal.
The names of the suspects have not been made public, but the operations that led to the first four arrests were carried out in several regions of the Netherlands, as part of the fight once morest illegal streaming, according to Europol. In this sense, the FIOD agents also carried out a series of simultaneous searches in the homes of the suspects, in Amsterdam, Almere, Enschede, The Hague and Den Helder. Cars, computers, bank account numbers and large sums of cash were seized.
Europol’s European Financial and Economic Crime Center supported this investigation by helping to identify key targets and offending activities across Europe.
In the same framework, Europol experts were deployed to various locations in the Netherlands during the day of action to support the FIOD in its activities.
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