The Police Directorate issued a Press Release on the results of the global online police operation to tackle the phenomenon of child pornography, codenamed "HYDRA»
The press release for the business HYDRA the press spokesman of EL.AS. and the Head of the Electronic Crime Prosecutor's Office,
Good morning.
A large, global online police operation, codenamed "HYDRA", was recently completed by the Greek Police's Electronic Crime Prosecution Division, with very significant results.
The business was for many months, lasted over seven months and aimed at combating the phenomenon of possession and trafficking of child pornography through the internet.
During the operation we identified a total of seventy seven (78) users – perpetrators, whose electronic traces arise in thirty-two (32) different countries of the world.
In more detail, in addition to our country, we have traced pedophiles in Germany, Russia, USA, Great Britain, France, Poland, Sweden, China, Czech Republic, Iran, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Colombia and Georgia, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Australia, Canada, Portugal, Mexico, the Bahamas, Austria, Slovenia and Belgium.
Για τη διαδικτυακή έρευνα ενεργοποιήσαμε το ειδικό πρόγραμμα TLO (λογισμικό σάρωσης ηλεκτρονικών ιχνών διακίνησης πορνογραφικού υλικού), που διαθέτει η Διεύθυνση Δίωξης Ηλεκτρονικού Εγκλήματος, για τον εντοπισμό ιχνών χρηστών του διαδικτύου, που διακινούν παιδικό πορνογραφικό material.
With regard to our country, we have formed three (3) self-contained papers and captured by Xonum and Attica three (3) individuals, two of whom are 34 and 25-age nationals and one foreign national of Bulgaria 47. Against them, criminal prosecution for child pornography was conducted via the internet.
In particular, on 21-11-2013, after an online investigation, we identified the criminal activity of a 34-year-old citizen who trafficked hard child pornography, through a special program againstchangeof PEER TO PEER (P2P) files, on the Internet.
Following the appropriate use of the 34-time arrests and traces of the arrested person and in collaboration with the relevant Prosecuting Authorities, we performed the time from 28-11-2013 to 22-01-2014, a targeted web penetration research on this file sharing program aiming at finding and identifying other users who possessed and shared child pornography material.
In addition, 28-04-2014 was captured in Ioannina by 47, a pediatrician, a Bulgarian national. In a survey carried out in his home, in the presence of a Prosecutor, we found in a variety of digital storage media a number of "hard" child pornographyrelated by 29-04-2014 Press Release of the Hellenic Police Force Headquarters).
By order of the Prosecutor's Office of Ioannina, the data of the 47th old pediatrician and the criminal prosecution against him (related by 03-05-2014 Press Release of the Hellenic Police Force Headquarters).
As we have already announced, it is ZAHARIEV (op.) ZVETLOZAR of Gueorguiev and Jorgania, born at 10.10.1967 in Bulgaria.
At the expense of him, he was prosecuted for the supply and possession of child pornography material, using the internet, the production of which is linked to the use of a minor who has not completed the 15 years, by a habitually responsible person.
The pediatrician played a central role in a closed group of users of the particular file exchange program, members of which used special tricks, e-identity and encryption programs to cover their illegal online action.
Subsequently, on 25-04-2014 we arrested in Attica, the 25-year-old, on the portable electronic υπολογιστή του οποίου βρήκαμε αποθηκευμένα αρχεία (βίντεο και φωτογραφίες) με πορνογραφικό υλικό ανηλίκων (related by 09-05-2014 Press Release of the Hellenic Police Force Headquarters).
The migrated files we detected and seized were sent to the Criminal Laboratories for further consideration, and for many of them it emerged that they were new material, "hard" child pornography.
The aggregate data generated by the business for the above-mentioned countries have already been sent to INTERPOL and EUROPOL to identify other program users, the exact number of files they hold, and to identify potential victims of child pornography.
Those arrested in the case filed against them were brought to the appropriate Prosecutor's Office.
It is noted that this is the first time the Electronic Crime Prosecutor's Office plans, organizes, coordinates and implements such a large-scale police operation on the global web site.
The message and the answer of the business is that the Prefecture enforcement authorities are alert. No pedophile does not remain immature. Their criminal activity is revealed and accountable to the Justice.
Answers to questions about the timing of the police operation, the action of the users of the program and the particulars characteristics of the business will be given to you by the Head of the Electronic Crime Prosecution Directorate, Brigadier General Emmanuel Sfakianakis.
