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TMCNet: Greek police cracks child porn ring

[June 24, 2009]

Greek police cracks child porn ring

ATHENS, Jun 24, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Greek police have cracked a major child porn ring operating via the Internet, with 39 people charged in connection with the case, according to a police announcement on Wednesday.

Police said a joint investigation by the Athens and Thessaloniki electronic crime squads lasted more than three months. Those under arrest included 37 Greeks and two foreign nationals. All the accused were living and working in Athens, Thessaloniki and 10 other cities around Greece.

Of the 39 people charged, 20 were caught in the act of disseminating hard-core pornographic material from their computers during a coordinated operation carried out simultaneously in several cities at once.

The investigation was begun based on information supplied by German authorities, who had tracked the electronic traces of 170 Greek Internet users in one of their own investigations, during which they discovered the existence of a file sharing network used to disseminate child porn.

Using this information, Greek electronic crime officers managed to identify 39 of the users and staged a coordinated operation held between June 13 and June 19, in collaboration with local police.

Many of those placed under arrest were found to have more than three files containing child porn and will thus face criminal charges.

Among the items impounded as evidence were 87 computer hard drives, five laptops, and a large number of CDs and DVDs containing child pornography.

Some of the people charged were not at home at the time of the raid but had left their computers linked up to the Internet and were in the process of downloading the pornographic material.

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