follow-up: Latvia's Online "Robin Hood" Unmasked By Authorities Following Raids

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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018686988

Latvia's Online "Robin Hood" Unmasked By Authorities Following Raids
May 13, 2010 2:47 p.m. EST

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN News Editor

Riga, Latvia (AHN) - Authorities have finally unmasked Latvia's online 
"Robin Hood". The man who took part in the downloading of 7 million tax 
records to highlight hypocrisy in high places has been identified as 
Ilmars Poikans.

The arrest of the 31-year-old researcher at the University of Latvia.s 
Institute of Mathematics and Computers has sparked a wave of protests.

Poikans, who went by the cybername "Neo," a reference to the main 
character in the "Matrix" films, leaked personal financial details about 
Latvia's top government officials and business leaders to local media 
outlets. His actions revealed that despite cuts in government services 
such as social security payments, pensions and healthcare as austerity 
measures, board members of municipal companies reaped huge salaries and 
bonuses as their workforce lost jobs and wages.

The data Polkans leaked proved to be highly embarrassing to those 
seemingly guilty of impropriety but he gained a huge public following.

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