Tuesday 14 July 2015

Court reduces really long sentences for TrueMove card hackers

Three men convicted a decade ago of hacking electronic top-up cards were given reduced jail terms ranging from over five years to 50 years.

After their cases wound through the justice system, the original sentences of up to 96 years were reduced, it was announced yesterday.

The group of three men were originally caught in 2005 and accused of conspiring to defraud True Move’s electronic card information system by raising the cards’ top-up value to THB105 million and then selling them for THB12 million.

The three men are Thaweesap Lalitsasiwimon, Porames Witthayakorn and Chatchai Buranadit, according to The Nation.

Thaweesap’s original 96-year sentence for hacking and forging information was reduced to 50 years to comply with the maximum allowed under Thai law.

Porames, who was given 32 years, will serve just over 21 years while Chatchai, found guilty of aiding the card-selling was sentenced to serve five years four months in jail instead of eight years.

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