VITICULTOR Y PRODUCTOR DE VINO SUIZO DETENIDO POR IRATERÍA INFORMÁTICA
Fuente: The Associated Press
Uno de los productores de vino más importantes de Suiza, Dominique Giroud, ha sido arrestado por cargos de piratería informática a los ordenadores de varios periodistas.
Cuatro detenidos en Suiza por pirateo informático. Un viticultor, un espía y otras dos personas han sido detenidas en Suiza, acusadas de piratear las computadoras y ordenadores de al menos dos periodistas.
La fiscalía de Ginebra indicó que el viticultor Dominique Giroud y un oficial federal de inteligencia que no fue identificado habían sido detenidos, junto con un pirata informático profesional y un investigador privado, por pirateo informático cuando supuestamente intentaban identificar la fuente de las filtraciones a los medios sobre una investigación sobre Giroud en el cantón suizo de Vaud.
Las nacionalidades de los otros dos detenidos no se especificaron. Un comunicado difundido el jueves por la oficina de la fiscalía indicó que los arrestos eran el fruto de una demanda presentada por medios de comunicación, sin entrar en detalles por el momento.
Medios de comunicación como la Radio Televisión Suiza y el diario Le Temps han informado recientemente sobre una investigación de las autoridades suizas en torno a una posible evasión fiscal relacionada con el imperio empresarial de Giroud.
SWISS PRODUCER ARRESTED ON SPYING CHARGE
Source: The Drink Business, written by Rupert Millar
One of Switzerland’s leading wine producers, Dominique Giroud, has been arrested on charges of hacking the computers of several journalists.
Giroud was already under scrutiny by the Swiss authorities for suspected tax fraud and broadcaster Radio Television Suisse and newspaper Le Temps ran reports on the case earlier in the year which Giroud tried, unsuccessfully, to stop.
Giroud was arrested on Wednesday along with three others, a professional hacker, a private investigator and one other unnamed individual.
A statement from the prosecutor’s office said that the arrests were made following a complaint filed by the two media organisations.
According to a report by RTS, Giroud and his alleged conspirators were trying to hack into two computers to discover who in his organisation had leaked information to the press, which made its way into the reports and which portrayed him as something of a control freak according to Le Temps.
Suspicion began to build around Giroud following the construction of a huge winery in the Valias in 2008, he has been under investigation by the Swiss authorities since 2011 and was asked to pay a tax arrears of over CHF9 million last year.
When asked how he had afforded it he is said to have always replied, “only my accountant and me know this information.”
If found guilty, the theft of computer data in Switzerland carries a five year sentence.