From Reuters:
German police have uncovered an underground website for child pornography with nearly 90,000 users and arrested the suspected operator of the platform, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The "Elysium" platform, built as a forum, has existed since the end of 2016 and was only accessible via the so-called Darknet, Frankfurt public prosecutor's office and BKA Federal Police said in a statement.
Police had arrested several users of the website, mainly in Germany and Austria, it said. Among them was the suspected operator of the platform, a 39-year-old man living in the district of Limburg-Weilburg north of Frankfurt.
The website had more than 87,000 users and was used for the worldwide exchange of child pornography and to make appointments for the sexual abuse of children, prosecutors said.
"Among the child pornographic images and video files exchanged by the members of the platform were recordings of the most serious sexual abuse of children, including toddlers and depiction of sexual violence against children," it said.
The suspected operator was arrested on June 12 when police raided his apartment and seized the server of the platform.
The statement did not say how many people had been arrested, adding that more details of the case would be made available at a news conference on Friday.
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; editing by Andrew Roche)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-sexcrimes-idUSKBN19R0VD?il=0
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pbvrocks ago
I would hope this is the server that was talking to Alefantis server at CPP. This was hacked (the CPP server) and information was given to the DC police. It had videos and a method of collecting payments by bitcoin. Both the DC police, the FBI, and the Attorney General's office's have this information. The CPP server had lots of inbound traffic...but even more outbound and most was to another server in Germany...looks like this went down June 12. So..how do we know if this was related to CPP? If it was we are getting close and Alefantis should be arrested soon. Think of what the arrest of Alefantis would do to 1. "fake news" 2. MSM 3. the DC elite when he talks...People like Alefantis won't "go down with the ship..."
cantsleepawink ago
Do you really think that when... Interim police chief Peter Newsham #StandsWithComet
....and written about extensively here on VOAT.
pbvrocks ago
Yes..I do..because those holding the goodies..meaning those who reported it...have names of police officers, FBI and AG officials they have reported it to. For those people not to document and act would be a crime. I agree that this is not being investigated in any NORMAL fashion...I am just saying the DC police officer who took the report can be DOX'ed..as can a few others..
Factfinder2 ago
Did you see this deleted post last night by someone asking us for a deadman's switch email address for leakers to send leaks to? https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1979123 I had the thought that this could be related to the CPP hacker. Titus Frost indicates there is some frustration with the hacker about lack of action by authorities after the info was shared with DC police when obtained in mid November: https://youtu.be/IHdWp4Ro2Qo?t=84 Also, according to Titus, the hacker's last request to the DC police for an update on the status of the investigation resulted in a blank email from them: https://youtu.be/IHdWp4Ro2Qo?t=652