History 2004: Bisser Dimitrov, Former CEO of Gigastorage, Appealed Verdict

We thought that the Gigastorage  case was over, with the conviction by a French court of 2 accused parties, Bisser Dimitrov, former CEO of the HDD manufacturer, and Jean-Pierre Maillot, the former director of the Agency for Development of the Territories of Belfort, to minor sentences.

Both men have decided that their suspended sentences were excessive, and have appealed the verdict. Generally speaking, appealed sentences are reduced, but not always, particularly when they started out as lenient as these…

Incidentally, we learned that Dimitrov sold his 900 squarefoot house in Los Gatos, CA for $673,000 last October. 

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 203 on December 2004 from the former paper version of Computer Data  Storage Newsletter.