39 suspects identified in major online child sexual abuse swoop in the Western Balkan

[milos_rs]

Operation MOZAIK 2023 was led by the Slovenian National Police and coordinated by Europol in the framework of the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT). It aimed to identify and arrest people using online forums and messaging applications to share and distribute child sexual abuse material. The Western Balkan countries –Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary carried out a series of enforcement actions between 6 to 17 November.

Police conducted 41 raids across the participating countries, following investigations into the sharing of images and videos depicting child sexual abuse. As a result, 3 suspects were already arrested or charged with crimes relating to the distribution of child abuse images.
During the actions, more than 200 items containing images or videos of child sexual abuse were seized, including computers, mobile phones, computer servers and memory cards.

Europol facilitated the information exchange between all the countries involved, and further enhanced the operational picture in the region by cross-checking the seized data and providing intelligence packages to continue the investigative work in this region and beyond.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-pres...kan-region

Potpredsednik Vlade i ministar unutrašnjih poslova Ivica Dačić izjavio je da su pripadnici Službe za borbu protiv visokotehnološkog kriminala Uprave za tehniku, u okviru Evropske platforme za borbu protiv organizovanog kriminala (EMPACT), učestvovali u velikoj međunarodnoj akciji "Mozaik 2024" usmerenoj protiv seksualne zloupotrebe dece na internetu, na zapadnom Balkanu, u kojoj je ukupno identifikovano 63 osumnjičenih, izvršeno 59 pretresa i otkriveno osam žrtava.

https://www.euronews.rs/srbija/aktuelno/...rtava/vest

Šest osoba je uhapšeno u nekoliko gradova u bosanskohercgovačkom entitetu Republika Srpska u velikoj međunarodnoj akciji zbog sumnje za iskorištavanje djece za pornografiju, saopšteno je iz Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova (MUP) RS u ponedjeljak, 18. novembra.

"Navedena lica se sumnjiče da su putem društvenih mreža, kao i u grupama za
komunikaciju, objavljivali i razmjenjivali materijal seksualnog zlostavljanja i
iskorištavanja djece. Takođe, osumnjičeni su stupali u kontakt sa djecom, te im slali i
navodili ih da sačinjavaju pornografski materijal", stoji u saopštenju MUP-a RS.

https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/uhapsen...06483.html