The Office for Combating Cybercrime considers the case of the 42-year-old, who was arrested yesterday in Limassol, as a suspect in the production of child pornography, with six boys, aged about 12 to 15, as particularly serious and unprecedented.
In a statement to the Cyprus News Agency, George Karkas, an assistant in charge of the Office for Combating Cybercrime, said no other case had been reported in which child pornography was recorded in Cyprus, adding that the victims were not sexually assaulted.
Our priority, he added, is to locate these six boys, to whom the suspect allegedly offered non-profit private lessons, forcing them to pose naked in the lens, while it is not ruled out that the number of victims may be higher.
Asked about this, he confirmed that he was the same person who had been arrested on September 13, following a 15-year-old complaint that he had harassed him during private lessons, forcing him to commit obscene acts and watch erotic movies with him.
"A case of similar nature has been pending before a court against him, which was investigated by another police department," Mr Karkas said, adding that the 42-year-old had been released on parole.
The Office for Combating Cybercrime, he added, arrested him the day before yesterday, as new evidence emerged as part of an assessment of information and investigations into the case.
The police mobile phone and the 42-year-old's computer, which were found in his home, are under the microscope of the Police.
The suspect, who has been in custody for 8 days since yesterday for the offenses of acquiring, possessing, accessing child pornography and producing child pornography material, "retains the right to remain silent and does not answer the questions of police investigators," the aide added. of the Office for Combating Cybercrime.
Source: Reporter
