Italy: Porn ring shut down

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The Italian police closed down an important child pornography site which operated out of Belarus.  An investigation has been started against 83 people in Italy. Two have been arrested, according to the police.  All suspects are male aged 26 to 59 years.

Eighty three House searches were conducted in 37 Italian provinces Friday.  According to the Italian news agency ANSA the suspects come from all social categories: laborers, students, clerks to representatives of the Catholic and Muslim faiths."

The site charged money (90 dollars, 72 euro), but is now shut down.  Some suspects paid up to 1,000 euro a month in order to see the site.  An amount of 3.2 million euro was confiscated in Belarus, together with about 600 videocassettes.

Source: Tijd (Dutch)

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