19-02-2011, 01:12
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Re: Virgin media possibly getting serious on dodgy boxes?
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
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TWO members of a gang who were jailed for a digital TV scam must pay back a total of £170,000.
Three Blackburn men and a Preston man were sentenced to more than 17 years in May last year after they were found guilty of defrauding Virgin Media Ltd by selling illegally modified set-top boxes.
The scam enabled customers to receive paid-for digital channels for free.
At a Proceeds of Crime hearing at Preston Crown Court this week, Dilawer Dudhwala, 29, of Assheton Road, Blackburn, was told to pay Virgin £65,000 in compensation by August 30 or he would face an additional 18 months in jail on top of his existing 18 month sentence.
Salim Zinga, 41, of Duchy Avenue, Preston, who was jailed for four years, has to pay back £105,000 to Virgin by next February or face an extra two years.
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