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Friday, 26.04.2024, 02:30
Supreme Court lifts sentence on whistle-blowing hacker
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Supreme Court’s spokeswoman Baiba Kataja said that the court lifted the decision on the
sentence in the part of the criminal case where Poikans was found guilty of
unlawfully accessing economic data and other trade secrets for personal or
other use. This part of the case will be sent to the appellate court for
repeated revision. The Supreme Court said that the court’s decision does not
provide the description of the committed crime that would meet the requirements
of the Criminal Law as such a description is an important part of the court
sentence. The Supreme Court upheld the Riga Regional Court’s decision
in the part where Poikans was acquitted of unlawful use of personal data that
has caused significant damage. The Supreme Court’s decision is final. As reported, Riga Regional Court in November 2015 sentenced
Ilmars Poikans accessed the database of the State Revenue Service and leaked
the stolen data to the press, to 100 hours of community service. The court found Poikans guilty of unlawfully accessing
economic data and other trade secrets for personal or other use, but acquitted
of unlawful use of personal data that has caused significant damage. A court of first instance acquitted Poikans in 2014 in a
trial that took place nearly five years after he had leaked data from the
electronic declaration system of the State Revenue Service. Poikans had found a
security hole in the system and posted some of the stolen data on the Internet.
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