Media firm fined

COPENHAGEN: A Danish media group was fined and two news executives were given suspended jail sentences yesterday for illegally buying credit card data of celebrities.

The accused, who worked at the weekly magazine, Se & Hor, paid an employee who did work for a credit card payment firm to leak information, a court said.

Aller Media, which owns Se & Hor, was fined 10 million Danish crowns (R21m).