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  Child Pornography Ring Broken in Greece

ANA
January 26, 2009

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7253830&service=142

GREECE — Greek police broke a child pornography ring, part of a global network, and charged 24 people across the country with possessing and trafficking hard-core material on the internet following an investigation that lasted roughly three months, it was announced on Tuesday.

Eleven men were arrested, among them an Archimandrite, aged 44, who is a priest in the Peloponnese but was taken into custody in Attica prefecture.

Police tracked 137 electronic traces on the Internet that belonged to a total of 35 users in Greece who in fact were the 24 suspects indicted as some of them used more than one electronic address.

The Greek users had bought or attempted to buy access and membership rights on VIP websites by using credit cards.

Police have confiscated a total of 28 computer hard-drives, 8 portable PCs and a large number of DVDs with a capacity of 28,000 GB.

The investigation on the case was launched after a relative document was forwarded by the London Metropolitan Police via Interpol informing police authorities that following a global investigation on the Internet it had traced over 200 websites for VIP members with hard-core material involving small children.

The users were trafficking explicit child pornography material showing among others even 6-month-old babies, with their hands tied behind their backs, in sexual activity with minors.

 
 

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