Westline CEO convicted of illegal IP-telephony usage

Author: Mikhail Doroshevich

16/04/2003

A Belarusian company's CEO has been convicted of illegally accessing international telephone communications for his company without going through the state telco.

Illegally side-stepping Beltelecom - the state telco - Westline accessed international telephone communications via IP telephony. Wesline's activities resulted in losses to Beltelecom totaling approximately E37,000.

Westlines' chief manager may get up to five years in prison for the crime.

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