Dutch crackdown on child porn network

The Hague
October 6, 2004 - 10:30AM

Two people have been arrested and thousands of CD-ROMs, videotapes and computer disks seized in a crackdown on internet-based child pornography networks, Dutch authorities said on Tuesday.

Some 200 police and judicial officials searched a total of 173 homes, seizing 280 computer hard drives, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.

The two people have been arrested on suspicion of purchasing child pornography over the internet, a spokeswoman said.

The operation is linked to an investigation opened in the US last year over the worldwide distribution of child porn over the Internet, the statement said.

US investigators had supplied their Dutch counterparts, via the international police agency Interpol, with information about individuals suspected of buying child pornography.

The US inquiry has so far helped to identify a company based in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, which is believed to have made millions of dollars through the online sale of child pornography.


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