Re: INFO (cont'd): Spain - Translation agency owners arrested for non-payment of translators

[Guest guest]

Breaking news !

On the BB page I mentioned previously, ProZ has eventually displayed an

information giving the details of the Spanish translator associations to

contact if you are a victim of Maremagnum (and other aliasses).

They give 2 addresses specific for the members of those 2 associations,

plus one for the non-members of those associations.

See here : http://www.proz.com/blueboard/753

Good luck !

Le 31/05/2012 13:30, cgtradmed a écrit :

> Dear Listmates,

>

> For those who are not aware of the news yet, published yesterday on

> ProZ, LinkedIn, Viadeo, Twitter, etc.., and in case some of you might be

> the victims of those crooks, - I hope it's not the case - let me

> summarize the situation :

>

> The Spanish authorities (the Catalan police ) have arrested the two

> managers of a translation agency which didn't pay its translators.

> Moreover, they used to impersonate some real colleagues in order to get

> the jobs.

>

> Currently, the financial damage is estimated at approx. Euro 20,000, but

> the investigation is still ongoing.

>

> " The detainees, V.F., 43, and Nuria D.R., 38, used

> websites to find and hire translators, who accepted the jobs, deliverd

> them, and waited in vain to be paid. When the translators tried to claim

> their payment by contacting the person who they thought had assigned

> them the job, they realized that that person either did not exist or was

> not who in reality had hired them. " (this last part has been translated

> from Spanish by Vicente on L-I)

>

>

>

> The article article below is in Spanish:

>

>

http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20120530/54301012551/detienen-en-bar\

celona-a-los-responsables-de-una-empresa-por-estafar-a-traductores.html

>

<http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elavanguardia%2Ecom%2Flo\

cal%2Fbarcelona%2F20120530%2F54301012551%2Fdetienen-en-barcelona-a-los-responsab\

les-de-una-empresa-por-estafar-a-traductores%2Ehtml & urlhash=7m3E & _t=tracking_ane\

t>

>

> The name of this agency is MAREMAGNUM, and

>

> According to the ProZ Blue Board, the other names of this agency are :

> http://www.proz.com/blueboard/753

>

<http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eproz%2Ecom%2Fblueboard%\

2F753 & urlhash=bdKn & _t=tracking_disc>

>

>

> MTM / Maremagnum Servicio Lingüístico / Grupo Universal / Grupo MTM /

> GRUPO TRADUCTORES ASOCIADOS / GLOBAL SCHOOL EMITIEM SL /

>

> Colleagues - namely non-Spanish ones - who are owed money by those

> crooks must make themselves known to the Catalan police, for instance

> via translators associations. (e.g. I know that AIPTI/IAPTI - of which a

> lot of members are " Spanish-native " - is already ready to help the

> victims to contact the investigators http://www.aipti.org/eng/ )

>

> But I sincerely do hope that no one among our listmates is affected by

> this case.

>

> Good luck!

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