Overview

• Around 100 officers from the Bayerische Landespolizei and the Cybercrime unit raided nine locations in June to dismantle a network redistributing Netflix and German pay-TV streams
• Investigators confiscated terabytes of data, servers, mobile devices and valuables including cash, gold coins and cryptocurrencies valued at about €500,000
• Five suspects were identified—three German nationals, one Austrian and one Azerbaijani—with a 25-year-old software developer from Tirschenreuth seen as the principal organizer
• Three individuals remain in pretrial detention while a Munich suspect was released and a Hamburg suspect faces expanded charges for alleged child sexual exploitation
• Authorities expect the multi-month forensic examination of seized materials to uncover further evidence and potentially implicate additional subscribers