mazo juez According to reports Europa Press, the Criminal Court No. 2 of Logroño has imposed a penalty of one year imprisonment and a fine of 2,160 euros, plus the payment of costs, a neighbor of Rincon de Soto (La Rioja) for a crime of discovery of secrets (articles 197-201 Criminal Code).

The processed consented without permission in April 2006 to two mail accounts whose passwords knew and changed, reading the messages and personal attachments that were included in them. In addition, on 20 June 2006, sent an email from one of the accounts "with obscene images and rude" to the father of the account holder with the intent to "cause discord and humiliation in their family environment" with the knowledge of the "decline in the essential rights of personality" following the ruling. A similar case recently occurred less than a month when, after a police investigation, he stopped in Pamplona a man accused of "access an email account and send pictures humiliating others." The first statement in this sense occurred in 2004 was resolved with an agreement between the parties.

The incident occurred during a family crisis and processed accounts accessed from the computers of his father's company, located in the town of Rincon de Soto (La Rioja), knowing in advance the personal content of these accounts. Until February 2007, made use of the two email accounts to have access to existing messages and files as well as those received in the whole period.

The ruling includes suspend execution of sentence of imprisonment if the processed pay the fine, costs and not commit any crime for two years. The offense includes a prison sentence of one to four years to be imposed in the upper half it is done for profit, so that the sentence imposed in this ruling is the minimum accepted by the Penal Code, although it could consider treating the result of the proven facts.

Remember that if "made by the persons in charge or responsible for the files, computer media, electronic or telematic, files or records, the penalty is imprisonment of three to five years and if they spread, give or reveal the sensitive data, the penalty is in the upper half "as outlined in Article 197.4 of the Penal Code, and other specialties if it occurs at work or an official. The prosecution of this crime should be, in general, ex parte and forgiveness of the offended extinguish the criminal action or the penalty imposed without prejudice to the possible pardon.

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