The Civil Guard has disabled the channel streaming most important pirate in SpainCristal Azul, which offered paid football matches from the Spanish first and second division for free to some 78,000 users, with a loss of more than 42 million euros.
The investigation of the armed institute occurred following a joint complaint presented by LaLiga and Movistar that has culminated in linvestigation of the alleged perpetrator, a 37-year-old man, within the framework of the operation Blue Corsair.
Through the Kodi player, which allows you to organize and play videos, images and audios delayed, online or online. streamingthe researchers detected that one of the extensions or add on created by a developer external to the platform allowed free viewing of footballas reported this Friday by the Madrid Command in a note.
From here, members of the Technological Research Team (EDITE) tracked down the source code of the extension or add on and, after different searches for information, they determined that soccer games They were broadcast through the Telegram instant messaging application.
Subsequently, the investigations focused on determining the authorship of the events, through pseudonym research that appeared in the source code within the extension where paid football content was broadcast.
After downloading the extension, the agents concluded that it belonged to a specific user and they completely identified the author comparing the data with police databases.
The operation culminated in the investigation of a 37-year-old man for a crime related to the market and consumers, with an estimated fraud of more than 42 million euros, as well as the elimination of the Telegram channels in which the matches were played and also the programming code used illegitimately.
