The program "What is hidden greatest", which was broadcast on Sunday on Al Jazeera, revealed unprecedented details of the piracy scheme of the channels "BN Sports" by a network with links to the Saudi and Egyptian intelligence services.
The program revealed that Colonel in the Saudi intelligence Maher al-Mutarab, who is one of the most prominent in the assassination of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was the coordinator of an intelligence cell for Riyadh, which included three senior employees of the group "BN Sports".
The singer met with one of the three involved in the cell after the latter entered Saudi Arabia without a visa or stamp on his passport, following the outbreak of the siege of Qatar in June 2017.
Since its recruitment, the cell has been working to provide Saudi and Egyptian intelligence with classified and sensitive information and documents to harm the interests of the sports network.
The program also revealed that two Saudi companies, "Silvijn" and "Shammas" were involved in the piracy operations carried out by a channel known as "Out Q" and located in the headquarters of a media company in the Kairouan district of Riyadh.
The program was able to obtain documents proving financial transfers between the companies involved and the management of the satellite "Arabsat", and revealed that there are efforts to prepare an alternative place for piracy in an Arab African country after increasing pressure on Saudi Arabia.
Mystique Azam was able to obtain leaked video from inside the secret headquarters of the OutQuest channel, revealing the confidential details of the site and the characters associated with it. The video also showed the equipment and transmitters and receivers used for piracy.
The video also uncovered the main control room and servers that regulate the channel and distribute its stolen content, from the original BN Sports devices stacked at the pirated channel headquarters.
The "hidden greatest" investigation proved that piracy of BN Sports is not a product of ordinary piracy, but rather part of an integrated system with official cover and financial support.
In June 2017, days after the announcement of the blockade on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, all BN Sports channels were banned and their devices confiscated in Saudi Arabia, coinciding with the promotion of a new sports media group by Saudi authorities.