ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The State Police has concluded a significant operation aimed at contrasting the spread of pedopornographic material on the internet, which has led to the arrest in scourgency of crime of 3 subjects and the complaint in the state of freedom of others 6.
The survey is the result of a complex and articulated undercover operation conducted by the specialists of the National Center for Contrast to Online Pedopornography (C.N.C.P.O), who have operated infiltrating criminal virtual environments. The activity, begun in 2024, has allowed the continuous exploration and monitoring of the distribution channels of illicit material at a transnational level. During this activity, the spread of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) was identified, also referring to victims at an early age, also generated by the use of artificial intelligence. In this context, the collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (BF) has enabled us to acquire useful information for identifying interested parties. The investigations, coordinated by the Prosecutor of the Republic of Rome, have allowed to ascertain the availability of the material and to acquire significant elements of the activities carried out by the users and the issue of 9 decrees of domicile, personnel and computer science to the inquiries for detention and dissemination of illicit material.
The investigations of the State Police, which saw the involvement of the Cibernetic Security Operations Centres (C.O.S.C.) of Bari, Cagliari, Florence, Milan, Rome, Turin and Venice, were carried out at the same time in nine Italian cities, with a use of approximately 50 specialized operators of C.O.S.C. and S.O.S.C. of all the national territory. The activity has allowed to under arrest a man of 70 years with specific precedents in the province of Belluno, one of 63 years in the province of Mantovana and a 28-year-old in the province of Como, for detention of thousands of files realized through the sexual exploitation of minors and to denounce in state of freedom other subjects, aged between 30 and 70 years, resident in the provinces of Bari, Oristano, Massa, Florence, Lecco and Frosinone.
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