Movie2k.to operators have been arrested in Germany

As the Attorney General of Dresden announced today, two alleged operators of the streaming portal Movie2k.to in Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria were arrested last Thursday and searched their private premises. In addition, it hit a real estate marketer from Berlin, which is accused of laundering on a large scale.

Raid in Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria

The two suspects are said to have spread more than 880,000 black copies of cinematographic films and TV series together with other participants. They used their own streaming host called Stream2k.com among others. A man from the Rhineland-Palatinate Rhine-Lahn district and a suspect from Bavaria got a visit from the police. The police confiscated the computers, smartphones, written documents, cash and the precious metal coins on Thursday. With online advertising and Abofallen the men are said to have generated profits in the amount of several million euros. Movie2k.to was after the shutdown of its predecessor Kino.to one of the most visited illegal streaming portals in the German-speaking area.

Berlin real estate agent arrested for money laundering

As the SWR reports , there was another arrest of a Berlin real estate entrepreneur in Berlin, which is to be accused of commercial and gang money laundering. On behalf of the operators, the Berliner is said to have specifically bought real estate in Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin from autumn 2013 in order to hide profits from the tax office. The Berliner was also the administrator of the purchased real estate. For his services, the marketer should have received more than 5.1 million euros through a Dutch letterbox company alone by mid-2016.

On the trail of the alleged portal operators came the Attorney General Dresden through investigations with the state criminal police Saxony and the tax investigation Leipzig. The Attorney General was also in charge of the investigation against Kino.to, which was operated by a Leipzig. Between Movie2k.to and Kino.to there were apparently connections. The successors Kinox.to and Movie4k.to are both currently online. Whether there are also connections, is not clarified except for some rumors so far . The Prosecutor General's Office would probably have shut down the two other portals long ago.

Operator was confident in the interview

In an interview with movie2k.to in 2011, one of the operators told me that they only had links to their site for a short time with drop-offs . In addition, it was " silly " that streaming sites would destroy many jobs in the film, music, porn industry, etc. The streaming portals are merely a repeal of the decades-long monopoly position of the content industry. This would rather bring back the "industry to the bottom of the facts ". These are merely " an economic change that we regard as legitimate in an economic form that requires progress a priori. "

The suspect also indicated that the condemnation of the former operators of The Pirate Bay did not make him think. You could not directly or indirectly download any movies on Movie2k.to. They offered only the links to the streaming hosters. In addition, TPB was actively involved with its own tracker in the file exchange of users, which in his view has had a negative impact on the verdict. At the end of his procedure, one will see if the admin with his view will be right in the end.