One of those arrested in the 7th phase of Operation 404 coordinated by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) and launched this Thursday (19/9) throughout the country, is a 31-year-old former civil servant. A resident of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, he was in Bairro Santa Rita, where the police seized a panel used for the sale of illegal streaming services.
He was located at his home, in Bairro Santa Rita, where he offered pirate links to access closed TV channels. The suspect even paid for a car of R$300,000 in Pix.
The Civil Police found that he had more than 2,000 active subscriptions to illegal streaming apps and served more than 4,000 customers across Brazil, according to information from G1.
Mobile phones and notebooks with prices ranging from R$10,000 to R$30,000 were collected. According to delegate Cristiana Angelina, head of the Special Division for Cybercrime Investigation and Consumer Protection in Belo Horizonte, “two vehicles were also seized, one of which was worth R$300,000, paid for by Pix, which means that his income did not correspond at all to the civil salary of a servant.”
The suspect made a profit of around R$200,000 per month from the criminal activity, charging between R$35 and R$40 per month for each subscription to the pirated link. He will be investigated for money laundering and concealment of assets, since he used the name of a family member to acquire the assets.
Operation 404
Combating piracy and crimes against intellectual property on the internet since 2019, Operation 404 dismantled, this Thursday (19/9), 675 websites and 14 streaming applications for games, music, films and series.
A total of eight people were arrested, six in Brazil and three in Argentina. Around 30 execution warrants were executed in the country.
