Global Courant 2023-04-27 04:11:27
They worked for more than two months on the investigation. They seized more than fifty digital equipment and 128 storage devices.
In a coordinated operation by federal and provincial forces, 13 people were arrested accused of generating and commercializing material linked to child sexual abuse. Three of those defendants reside in Buenos Aires and the rest were located in homes in other provinces.
The investigation began two months ago when a prosecutor from the Autonomous City requested a report from the ICACCOPS system, a platform of North American origin that is used to combat child sexual exploitation.
As confirmed to Clarín by the Procurator General of the Provincial Supreme Court, the detainees of the Province are three men: a 57-year-old man who lives in West Florida (Vicente Lopez’s district); another from Martinez (59 years old); and another by José C. Paz (46).
They are accused of the crime of possession for distribution or distribution of child pornographic material, a crime that includes penalties of up to 10 years in prison.
Since the early hours of this Wednesday, 62 simultaneous raids have been carried out in private homes, offices and dependencies of different jurisdictions. Twenty materialized in Buenos Aires territory.
There were interventions in a training center of a railway union and in a factory in the western area. It is that the device that detects movements of images with child pornography had registered this content on PCs in those places.
The police authorities seized more than fifty digital equipment and 128 storage devices. They also took three weapons and ammunition. In six of the procedures, the investigators found “cohabiting minors.” That is, children or adolescents who shared space with the people who were involved in the maneuver.
“There was no need for the minority services to intervene,” they clarified in the Attorney General.
Raids and arrests for child pornography
The operation called “Federal Network on Alert II” involved judicial units from 14 jurisdictions: Buenos Aires, CABA, Chubut, Entre Ríos, Santa Fe, Chaco, Córdoba, Formosa, Misiones, Salta, San Luis, Jujuy, Mendoza and San Juan .
In Buenos Aires, 20 objectives were worked on and the action was coordinated by the Department of Crimes Related to Human Trafficking, Child Pornography and Grooming, headed by Eleonora Weingast.
Justice had the contribution of officers belonging to the Cybercrime Investigations Directorate, of the Cybercrimes against Children and Adolescents division of the Federal Police and the DDI of several departments of the Province.
Operation “Red on Alert II” began with the work of the United States Embassy in Argentina, an American security agency and the Public Prosecutor of CABA.
The investigation was carried out by the Specialized Fiscal Unit for Computer Crimes and Contraventions (UFEDYCI), headed by Dr. Daniela Dupuy, together with the Judicial Investigation Corps (CIJ) of the City Public Prosecutor’s Office, within the framework of the work carried out by the authorities of the United States Embassy in Argentina, the US Department of Homeland Security of the United States and the CABA Public Prosecutor’s Office.
In July 2022, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the City of Buenos Aires and the US Department of Homeland Security created the first operational team against child sexual abuse, “TASKFORCE”, from which field tasks are coordinated together with other organizations and/or Argentine security forces, both nationally and locally.
That is why, in the event of finding illegal acts outside the territorial scope of this City, a notice is issued to the relevant judicial authorities, by virtue of the Protocol for Urgent Intervention and Reciprocal Collaboration in Cases of Detection of Use of material with content of child sexual abuse (RED 24/7) and the Commitment Act for the Constitution of the “Federal Network of Judicial Police and Criminal Investigation Operational Units”.
La Plata (Correspondent)
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