Re: INFO (cont'd 2): Spain - Translation agency owners arrested for non-payment of translators

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Ça bouge encore, as we say in French :

ProZ has just created a private forum for those affected by this agency

behaviour .

I quote Enrique Cavalitto, of ProZ staff :

" In addition, a ProZ.com private forum has been created to allow

those who are interested to share information and coordinate

regarding this issue. If you would like to be added to this

private forum, please contact site staff directly, using the

online support system. " .

Le 31/05/2012 14:02, cgtradmed a écrit :

> 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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