Daniel Oleskow had 27 previous convictions and was already serving a sentence when Trim Circuit Court dealt with two more operations: a Navan shop containing hundreds of unauthorised television decoders and equipment with an estimated €746,760 revenue impact, and drugs worth €63,049 recovered from his home.
The Navan shop
Gardaí searched Mediatech at Brews Hill in Navan and found 586 decoders, 18 USB sticks, 18 micro cards, 47 Sky remote controls and 198 low-noise blockers. Oleskow initially denied offending, then admitted selling the boxes and equipment. Garda evidence valued the potential lost Sky revenue at €746,760. That is an estimated rights-holder loss, not money proved to have entered Oleskow’s pocket.
Judge John Martin rejected the suggestion that Oleskow believed he was operating legitimately. He imposed three years for the copyright offences, dated from 4 October 2024.
The drug case and accumulated record
In a separate search on 19 February 2024, Gardaí recovered drugs worth €63,049 from Oleskow’s then home. The court imposed two-and-a-half years for sale or supply, consecutive to the three-year term, with the final 12 months suspended. This produced four-and-a-half effective years across the two sentencing blocks.
The court was told Oleskow had 27 previous convictions for various offences. The complete schedule was not published. He was already serving a sentence, but the report does not specify that sentence’s offence or how it interacts with the new terms.
Residence and immigration facts
Oleskow is a Polish national who had lived in Ireland since 2007 and was of no fixed abode at sentencing. As an EU citizen, nationality and conviction alone do not automatically establish an EU removal case. No source located reports a public-security assessment, EU Removal Order or exclusion decision.
Chronology
- 2007: Residence in Ireland began, according to court reporting.
- 2018: Copyright offences and shop search.
- 3 April 2018: Arrest on copyright breaches.
- 19 February 2024: €63,049 drug seizure.
- 4 October 2024: Date from which the three-year term ran.
- 18 June 2025: Consecutive sentences imposed and reported.
Cost benchmark
Four-and-a-half effective years at the Irish Prison Service’s 2024 staffed-space average represent a gross benchmark of €445,824. A simple ordinary-remission scenario is €334,368.
Questions the State should answer
- What offences and sentences make up the 27-conviction record?
- What sentence was Oleskow already serving?
- How much revenue did the illegal-box operation actually generate?
- Were criminal proceeds identified or recovered?
- What supervision followed earlier convictions?
- Has an EU public-security or removal assessment been conducted?