The correctional court of Nanterre sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison, two of which were suspended, “Haurus”, the former agent of the DGSI who was tried for having sold on the darknet information drawn from protected police files.
The prosecution had requested seven years in prison against this 35-year-old former police sergeant, who was being prosecuted for a dozen counts and had recognized the majority of the charges against him, declaring to have acted out of profit.
He sold, for remuneration in bitcoins, confidential data extracted from police files to which he had access: identities, addresses, telephone geolocations.
According to the prosecution, he would have carried out 382 illegitimate searches and charged his services between 100 and 300 euros.
Found guilty of all the facts, he left the courtroom handcuffed. His sentence is not adaptable “in order to prevent” new facts and he has the definitive ban to exercise in the public service, declared the judge during the deliberation.
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