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Pirate TV box dealer arrested in Cyprus
Manchester Evening News
|June 18, 2024
FRAUDSTER WENT ON RUN AFTER MAKING £350K FROM SELLING ILLEGAL DECODERS
A FRAUDSTER who went on the run after being convicted of selling pirate boxes giving illegal access to Sky TV, BT Sports and Virgin is finally behind bars.
Michael Hornung, then 38, of Hyde, Tameside, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in June 2022 for selling unauthorised decoders, selling articles for use in fraud and advertising unauthorised decoders for sale.
This story is from the June 18, 2024 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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