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Man who fled to Cyprus after selling illegal Sky and BT Sport boxes ordered to pay £250k

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A man convicted of selling set top boxes giving illegal access to Sky TV, BT Sports and Virgin has been ordered to pay more than £250,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

In June Michael Hornung, 38, of Tameside, was sentenced in his absence to four and a half years in prison for selling unauthorised decoders, selling articles for use in fraud and advertising unauthorised decoders for sale.

Minshull Street Crown Court was told he had fled to Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus, a territory with which the UK has no extradition treaty.

On Wednesday Hornug was ordered in his absence to pay £258,642.95. Read more: Dad's double life running £40m crime gang exposed after cops hack his phone and raid his luxury home Hornung, formerly of Hyde, is estimated to to have sold around 2,700 set top boxes over a three year period between January 2014 and January 2017.

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