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Anti-Virus Company VP Gets 6 Years In Jail, $65K Fine For Making Game Hack
Beijing, China: The former information security company Rising vice president Tan Wenming, along with his wife and university classmate made 2.81 million Yuan($371,000) selling a game plug-in for Legend of Mir 3, an online game operated by Optisp in China. There was a hearing last year and Tan admitted to selling the plug-ins and apologized to Optisp at the hearing. Early this year, Tan was convicted and sentenced 2 years and 6 months in jail by Beijing basic people’s courts, A new and final justice, made by intermediate people’s courts this Friday, changed it to 6 years and 500,000 Yuan Fine($65,000). His wife and his classmate, sentenced 3 and 2 years in jail, with $12,000 fine respectively.
Tan, Graduated from Peking University, was the formal Vice President of the Chinese Anti-Virus company Rising until 2003. Then he started making and selling game hacks till 2006.
This is also the first criminal charge in China made against game hacker.
