Team Xecuter sells for several years “Linkers”, accessories for playing pirated games on Nintendo and Sony consoles.
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Gary Bowser, a 52-year-old Canadian, was sentenced to three years in prison by a Seattle court (Washington State). Mr. Bowser was accused of being the main leader of the Team Xecuter Group, who produced tools for several years to operate pirated games on game consoles. Between 2013 and 2020, the group had marketed tools of this. Type for consoles of several manufacturers, including those of Nintendo.
m. Bowser pleaded guilty last year and agreed to pay $ 4.5 million (€ 3.95 million) of damages in Nintendo. He was considered the main head of Team Xecuter by American justice, because he administered various sales sites of the Group’s products.
For his defense, he said during his trial that he had been a simple performer, who would have been fooled by the one he presents as the real director of the group, a Frenchman of 49 resident in Avignon, Max Louarn. The trial of the latter, arrested in Tanzania at the request of the US authorities before being repatriated to France, has been postponed several times and is scheduled for May 30. A third man, a Chinese national living in Shanghai, was also charged during the American procedure.
m. Bowser told the hearing that he touched, for his work within Team Xecuter, about $ 320,000 in seven years. The prosecutor had requested a heavier sanction, sixty months in prison.