"Luz de Infancia VII": multiple raids throughout the country in an operation against child pornography

11/06/2020 11:09

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 11/06/2020 12:51

They raided 35 homes in Argentina as part of the operation "Luz de Infancia VII"

.

There have already been detainees and some suspects work in the public function.

The objective of the operation is to identify the perpetrators of crimes of

against children and adolescents practiced on the Internet.

These people provided the material

(Peer to Peer)

as "eMule", "BitTorrent" and "Raza", which are used by network users to copy images and videos.

Each user performs both server and client roles, because others can download files from their computers. 

This is a seventh part of the investigation for which last year Ricardo Russo, a doctor at the Garrahan Hospital, was sentenced to ten years in prison.

The court determined that it produced, possessed, and facilitated the distribution of photos and videos of child sexual exploitation.

The detainees provided the material through P2P platforms such as "eMule" and "Raza".

Of the 35 addresses that were searched in the country,

They were requested by the Office of the Specialized Prosecutor for Computer Crimes of the Buenos Aires Public Ministry (UFEDyCI), which was created by the attorney general Juan Bautista Mahiques and is headed by Dr. Daniela Dupuy.

The operations were coordinated by the Judicial Investigations Corps, which reports directly to the prosecution.

And they had the support of the police of the City, Buenos Aires, and national forces.

The rest of the raids - a total of 20 - were carried out in the Province of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Chaco, Santa Fe and Entre Ríos.

The Argentine Federal Police (PFA) raided

.

The operations were carried out in a house on 800 Alsina Street, eight blocks from downtown, while another was carried out in General Daniel Cerri.

"These procedures are framed in the operation called Luz de Infancia VII where the Brazilian police forces

, where

35 users were identified through their IP addresses ", reported from the Public Prosecutor's Office of Bahía Blanca.

The platform "called

(CPS) developed by the United States NGO

(CRC) detected the users of these P2P platforms who shared these abusive content and their IP numbers, thus reaching each address", they specified.

The operations were coordinated by the Corps of Judicial Investigations.

The operation “Luz de Infancia VII” is an international cooperation between Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the United States, Panama and Paraguay.

At this moment there are

taking place

in these countries.

As reported by the

Agency

, the operation complies with 137 search and seizure orders in ten states of that country.

While in the

measures are being implemented in the cities of Knoxville, Nashville, Dallas, Raleigh and Pittsburgh.

In

, local media published that 400 suspects were detected.

There were raids in Asunción and Ciudad del Este, with two people arrested.

While, in

, the Public Ministry reported that there were seven search procedures.

"Evidence was collected to be examined and determine if it contains child pornography material," he shared on Twitter.

Pedophile material seized during the operation “Luz de Infancia VII”.

A mega-operation that takes three years

The operation "

"

began in January 2017, in Brazil, with 108 arrested for committing crimes related to pedophilia in the virtual world.

This first phase had involved the analysis of 9,868 files, from 205 targets investigated in that country.

The second part,

, started in February 2018 and involved 26 Brazilian states.

As reported by the Buenos Aires Public Prosecutor's Office, this procedure was built with the analysis of 1,088,628 photos and videos.

The balance was 202 people imprisoned.

In September 2018, in the

phase 

, they found suspicious IP addresses of Argentine origin that shared 890 thousand files "with child sexual abuse content."

Based on this warning, 41 raids were carried out in 10 provinces and in the City.

Garrahan's doctor, Ricardo Russo, fell into that investigation.

After the raid on his home and the kidnapping of computers, "a large number of images and videos of child sexual exploitation were found," the Public Prosecutor's Office reported at the time.

Doctor Ricardo Russo was convicted of producing, possessing, and facilitating the distribution of photos and videos of child sexual exploitation.

Photo Maxi Failla.

The operation “

”, launched in March 2019, was triggered in 26 states of Brazil.

It resulted in the execution of 266 arrest warrants and 141 people arrested.

In September of the same year, “

” included simultaneous raids in the United States, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Paraguay and Panama.

Already in February 2020, the troops in charge of “

” managed to dismantle a child pornography network that operated in Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Panama.

To report

Anyone who has information or suspects a case of child abuse can contact the City Attorney General's Office through the page www.mpfciudad.gob.ar or at 0800-33-FISCAL (347225).

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