PAEDOPHILIA: BALENO OPERATION, 150 UNDER INVESTIGATION
PEDOFILIA: OPERAZIONE "BALENO", 150 INDAGATI IN EUROPA
Roma - Operazione
internazionale antipedofilia "Baleno"
Comando Provinciale di
Roma
10/05/2006
Ore 18:00
Oltre 150 persone indagate
nel corso di un'indagine internazionale contro la pedofilia on line. Nella
mattinata odierna, le Forze di Polizia di Austria, Belgio, Estonia, Francia, Italia,
Lituania, Olanda, Rep. Slovacca, Slovenia, Spagna,
Svezia, Ungheria e Stati Uniti coordinate dall'Ufficio Europeo di Polizia
(Europol), sono intervenute simultaneamente, effettuando numerosi arresti e
perquisizioni. Oggetto delle indagini un'associazione a delinquere, ramificata
e sviluppata in quasi tutto il mondo, con lo scopo di consentire lo scambio di
materiale pedo-pornografico. L'operazione, convenzionalmente denominata
"Baleno", è stata avviata dal Child Pornography Team della
Polizia olandese che ha fornito le prime indicazioni circa l'esistenza di una
vasta organizzazione telematica, attiva sulla rete Internet, i cui membri
detenevano e distribuivano ingenti quantità di materiale
pedo-pornografico. Le prime risultanze investigative sono state raccolte in un
dossier che è stato quindi consegnato al quartier generale di Europol a
L'Aja, affinché venissero attivate tutte le procedure utili per il
coinvolgimento delle Forze di Polizia dei paesi di appartenenza dei sospetti. I
membri della comunità virtuale utilizzavano sofisticate tecniche di
navigazione anonima e criptazione dei files pedo-pornografici, che venivano poi
depositati utilizzando servizi Internet gratuiti. Importante anche la
collaborazione sempre più stretta tra Europol e Stati Uniti, dove
l'indagine è stata portata a termine dalla Innocent Images Unit
dell'FBI. In Italia, l'intera attività investigativa, condotta dalla
Sezione Criminalità Informatica del Nucleo Operativo dei Carabinieri di
Roma, è stata coordinata dal Pubblico Ministero Dott. Nicola Maiorano
della Procura della Repubblica di Roma. La parte italiana vede coinvolte, per
il momento, due persone sospettate di appartenere alla comunità virtuale
e risultate essersi procurate materiale illecito dai server gestiti dal gruppo.
Si tratta di un commerciante cinquantenne di Genova e di un impiegato
quarantenne di Salerno.
Swedes seized in
international paedophile raid
10th May 2006
Stefan Kronqvist, chef för
it-brottssektionen på Rikskriminalpolisen.
Police in 13 EU countries and the US raided around 150 homes on Wednesday
morning in a strike against an international online paedophile
network. Around ten people were taken into custody, including three in Sweden."There are two men, one in Skåne
and one in Västmanland, who, after interviews,
are suspected of breaking child pornography laws," said Stefan Kronqvist, head of the police's IT crimes unit.Local police
authorities confiscated a number of computers during the raids, said Kronqvist. He added that the suspects are both aged 25-30
and that they have not yet been charged. They are suspected of possession of
child pornography, not distribution or production, Kronqvist
told TT.Police are expecting to find links to new
suspects when they begin analysing the confiscated
equipment, in the form of email addresses and IP addresses. Kronqvist
did not rule out further arrests in Sweden.As well as
Sweden and the US, raids were carried out in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France,
Italy, Lithuania,
Holland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Hungary and Austria.The
operation, codenamed Baleno, was coordinated by the
European police organisation Europol in the Hague,
the FBI and Interpol.The investigation was started by the Dutch authorities and
information was gathered from a total of 76 countries around the world."Our contribution was small. Sweden has not
played a leading role in this," said Kronqvist.According
to Europol, the network used advanced technology to spread pornography,
including time-limited encryption to protect the electronic identities of the
sender and recipient.
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3772&date=20060510
EUROPOL Report
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The Hague, 10 May 2006 |
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International action
against child sex offender networks
The Hague - The Netherlands. In a joint action against persons
suspected of being involved in child pornography offences, police from 12 EU
Member States and the United States made several arrests and around 150 house
searches this morning. Today’s action, named “Baleno”, is the result of a worldwide investigation led
by the Dutch National Police Agency and co-ordinated
by Europol. The Child Pornography Team of the
Dutch National Police Agency provided the initial intelligence for 76
countries around the world. The intelligence, related to EU Member States and
states with which Europol has a cooperation agreement, was sent to Europol
which then coordinated this action. Further intelligence was sent to Interpol
for onward dissemination. The intelligence is mainly related to an internet
board whose members’ activities included possession and distribution of child
abuse material. The network’s modus operandi consisted of using sophisticated
techniques to hide members’ electronic identities and to post encrypted
abusive content for a short period of time on free web services. The
investigation in the United States was carried out by the FBI Innocent Images
Unit. Europol Director Max-Peter Ratzel says: “I appreciate very much the cooperation
between our European partners, the FBI and Europol. Today’s arrests and house
searches is an important action against those who either directly or
indirectly are responsible for the sexual exploitation of children. The next
step in the investigation will be to try to prove the link between the
illegal content and the active abuse”. Europol has supported the
exchange of information in the EU and with the US, providing technical
expertise and assisting in identifying suspects at a national level. National contact points for the
media:
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Dutch Report
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11 Mei 2006 |
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Grote actie tegen kinderporno |
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Op 21
plaatsen in Nederland heeft de politie invallen gedaan op zoek naar
kinderporno. De invallen zijn onderdeel van een internationale actie, waarbij
in heel Europa bij 150 mensen huiszoeking is gedaan. Europol
coördineerde de actie die in elf landen werd uitgevoerd. |
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Hungary Report
"Baleno" akció
2006.05.10.
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Az akció során egy időben, közel 150 helyszínen tartottak házkutatást a nyomozó
hatóságok. Egy a holland rendőrség által
folytatott nyomozás
során kerültek
külföldi - köztük
magyarországi - felhasználók
a hatóságok látótérbe.
A „Baleno” fedőnevű
nagyszabású akcióban
Magyarország, ezen
belül a BRFK Bűnügyi
II. Főosztály Gyermek-és
Ifjúságvédelmi Osztálya, valamint 6 városi kapitányság
(Tatabánya, Fonyód,
Székesfehérvár, Vác, Oroszlány, Komárom) vett részt. Az akció célja azoknak a felhasználóknak a felkutatása,
illetve személyazonosságuk
megállapítása, akik a holland jelzés alapján, tiltott gyermek pornográf felvételeket
töltöttek le. |
A rendelkezésre álló
adatok alapján a nyomozók országszerte
10 házkutatást tartottak,
5 személyt – tiltott
pornográf felvétellel
való visszaélés,
valamint más bűncselekmények megalapozott
gyanúja miatt gyanúsítottként, 9 személyt
tanúként hallgattak
ki, illetve 10 darab winchestert és egyéb adathordozót foglaltak le,
melyek tartalmát szakértők vizsgálják
meg.
Europol igazgatója Max-Peter Ratzel
az akcióval
kapcsolatban a következőket
nyilatkozta:
”Nagyra értékelem az együttműködést
az európai tagországok az Europol és az FBI között. A mai napon lefolytatott házkutatások és
letartóztatások rendkívül
fontos lépések
azok ellen,
akik közvetve vagy közvetlenül felelősek a gyermekkorrúak
szexuális kizsákmányolásáért.”
Tiltott pornográf felvételek
letöltéséért, akár 3 évig terjedő szabadságvesztés
is kiszabható.
ORFK
Szóvivői Iroda
Slovakia Report
Nine men suspected of
distributing child pornography
SLOVAK police detained nine men suspected of involvement in the possession
and distribution of child pornography as part of an operation code-named "Baleno" (lightning).
National police squads in 12 EU states and the US searched more than 150
houses and arrested several people within the operation, which resulted from a
worldwide investigation led by the Dutch National Police Agency, the SITA news
wire wrote.
Seven house searches and three raids on other premises took place in
Slovakia in Bratislava, Trnava, Trenčín
and Nitra districts, according to Slovak police
spokesman Martin Korch.
Officers seized 13 computers, five USB memory keys, one external hard disc,
eleven memory cards, 211 DVDs, 210 CDs, 277 floppy disks, and 170
videocassettes.
Korch confirmed that the police had also searched the premises of the public TV
broadcaster Slovak Television , detaining one man who is among the nine
suspects.
Slovak Verison
Polícia v 12 krajinách
EÚ a v USA zasiahla proti
detskej pornografii
10.05.2006
Polícia v
12 krajinách Európskej
únie a v USA prehľadala
viac ako 150 domov a zatkla niekoľko osôb podozrivých v súvislosti
s detskou pornografiou. Informoval o tom dnes Europol.
Domové prehliadky
sa uskutočnili
okrem iného aj na Slovensku.
Operácia s krycím menom
Baleno je výsledkom medzinárodného
vyšetrovania vedeného
holandskou národnou policajnou agentúrou.
Holandská polícia poskytla
76 krajinám základné
informácie súvisiace
s internetovým portálom,
ktorého členovia
vlastnia a distribuujú
materiály dokazujúce
zneužívanie detí.
Zločinecká sieť
používala sofistikované
metódy, keď zatajovala elektronickú totožnosť svojich členov a zverejňovala na krátky
čas zakódovaný
obsah na bezplatných internetových
stránkach.
"Dnešné zatknutia
a prehliadky sú dôležitým krokom
proti tým, ktorí sú priamo či nepriamo zodpovední za sexuálne zneužívanie detí,"
uviedol riaditeľ Europolu Max-Peter Ratzel.
Europol neuviedol, koľko
osôb bolo zatknutých,
ani to, v ktorých krajinách sa
tak stalo.
Zásahy uskutočnili
v Rakúsku, Belgicku,
Estónsku, Francúzsku,
Maďarsku, Taliansku, Litve, Holandsku, na Slovensku,
v Slovinsku, Španielsku
a Švédsku. V Spojených štátoch
viedol vyšetrovanie
FBI.
Lithuania Report
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Some 150 searches were carried out at the beginning of this week in many
European countries and the U.S.A. to detect distributors of child pornography
in electronic space. The operation, which was called Baleno,
was headed by Europol. Lithuanian officials also took part in the operation.
Baleno was implemented in Holland, France, Austria, Belgium, Spain,
Italy, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, and the U.S.A. So far
there is no information about the number of the people detained. The officers of
the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau (LKPB) on Wednesday morning in Vilnius
visited a computer-related company suspected of distributing child pornography.
According to Markas Marcinkevicius,
the head of the Cyber Crime Investigation Division of the LKPB,
after the search the police took a computer from which child pornography is
supposed to have been distributed. The computer was turned over to experts. RESPUBLIKA
Spain Report
Operación Baleno en España
Sesenta y siete detenidos en una operación
policial europea contra la posesión y distribución de
pornografía infantil
En otras dos
operaciones distintas, la Brigada de Investigación Tecnológica de
la DGP ha realizado diez arrestos más en varias provincias
06-Junio-06.- Agentes de la
Dirección General de la Policía adscritos a la Brigada de Investigación Tecnológica de
la UDEF Central, en una operación policial conjunta contra la
distribución de pornografía infantil a través de Internet
han detenido a sesenta y siete personas. La operación, coordinada por EUROPOL, ha sido
desarrollada en las dos últimas semanas con las policías de
Francia, Bélgica, Holanda y Eslovaquia.
En
esta operación, denominada “Baleno”, han sido arrestados en España diez individuos en las localidades de
Madrid, Oviedo, Murcia, Valencia, Algeciras, Santander, Palma de Mallorca,
Rentería (Guipúzcoa) y Barcelona, y se han practicado un total de
diecisiete registros domiciliarios. Todas las personas que operaban en nuestro
país poseían amplios conocimientos informáticos y
tenían un nivel cultural elevado. Entre ellos hay varios profesores
universitarios.
La operación “Baleno” ha
culminado con la detención de siete individuos en Bélgica,
treinta y ocho en Francia, tres en Holanda, y nueve usuarios más en
Eslovaquia. Los implicados obtenían archivos de pornografía
infantil a través de un complicado y lento sistema de descarga, que
incluía la utilización de complejos programas de
encriptación.
Por otra parte, en otras dos
operaciones distintas desarrolladas exclusivamente en España, -Operación
“Trigger” y Operación “Iceberg”-, han sido detenidas diez personas en Madrid,
Castilla-La Mancha, Barcelona, Andalucía, Murcia y Levante.
OPERACIÓN BALENO
-17 registros domiciliarios
-10 detenidos en las siguientes ciudades: Madrid, Oviedo, Murcia, Valencia,
Algeciras (Cádiz), Santander, Palma de Mallorca, Rentería
(Guipúzcoa) y Barcelona (dos detenidos).