Jan de Wit, a student and computer shop employee from the town of Sneek, was given the alternative of a 75-day custodial sentence. The case is his first offence.
The public prosecutor had asked the court to impose a sentence of 240 hours community service and confiscation of his computer equipment. However, the FBI had written to the court in Leeuwarden, claiming that de Wit’s actions caused damage estimated at $166,000 although the court dismissed the letter for lacking in details.