London, Mar 27 (ANI): The crisis surrounding media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is spreading as the firm is now facing allegations of corporate espionage in the lucrative satellite television market dominated by News Corp companies.
An Italian computer expert who is the prime suspect in a piracy ring on trial on Italy for the alleged targeting of pay-TV companies was working as a consultant for a News Corp subsidiary involved in the industry.
According to The Independent, Pasquale Caiazza was receiving regular payments from a bank account controlled by News International, Murdoch's British newspaper business.
The American Department of Justice is understood to be monitoring the Italian court proceedings as part of a wider review of evidence of potential wrongdoing within the media empire.
According to the paper, Caiazza, a Naples-based computer security expert was reportedly paid about 12,000 pounds in monthly installments during 2003 and 2004 from a News International bank account in London.
He's accused of stealing television encryption cards made by Nagra France, which was engaged in a deal to produce the technology for Sky Italia, a division of News Corp.
The deal was cancelled by Sky Italia's then-boss Tom Mockridge as the hacking charges were unearthed, according to the paper.
A new encryption card contract was then awarded by Sky Italia to NDS, another News Corp subsidiary which was employing Caiazza as a consultant, for 'intelligence on pirating against it,' the report said. (ANI)
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