2004 Ukrainian child pornography raids
The 2004 Ukrainian child pornography raids occurred few months before the First Orange Revolution, when police in Ukraine raided a softcore child pornography ring operating in the cities of Kiev, Kharkiv and Simferopol. The ring had operated since 2001 and used a modeling agency as a front.[1]
The Crime Investigation Department of the Ministry for the Interior conducted the raids. The deputy head of the department, Vitaly Yarema, said that the bank accounts of the agency, containing hundreds of thousands of dollars, had been frozen.[1]
The raids were conducted after a joint investigation between Ukrainian police and Interpol. In 2005 the United States Department of State announced that there was further cooperation between Ukrainian police and other law enforcement agencies internationally.[2]
The investigation following the raids was completed by 6 April 2005.[3]
References
- "Police Shut Ukraine Model Agency in Porn Crackdown". Reuters. 28 July 2004. Archived from the original on 10 August 2004.
- "2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Ukraine". United States Department of State. 2005. Archived from the original on 7 April 2006. Retrieved 7 April 2006.
- "Criminal group involves 1,500 underage Ukrainian girls in porn business with parents' knowledge". Pravda. 6 April 2005. Archived from the original on 18 October 2007.
External links
- "Police Shut Ukraine Model Agency in Porn Crackdown". Reuters. 28 July 2004. Archived from the original on 10 August 2004.
- "A Ukrainian child porn ring exposed". crime-research.org. Computer Crime Research Center. 29 July 2004. Archived from the original on 31 December 2005. Retrieved 4 February 2006.
- "Ukrainian child porn ring". crime-research.org. Computer Crime Research Center. 13 August 2004. Archived from the original on 5 January 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2006.
- "An Insight Into Child Porn". wikileaks. Wikileaks. February 2002. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
- Под видом модельного агентства для детей в Харькове работала порностудия [Pornography studio operated out of Kharkov under disguise of a children modeling agency]. rusawm.com (in Russian). 8 December 2004. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2006.