The Federal Police launched this Friday (2) an operation to repress the possession, availability and publication of photographs and videos with explicit sex scenes or pornography involving children and adolescents.
Investigations were initiated based on information forwarded by Interpol, pointing out that Brazilians were sharing criminal content through a social networking application. The number of Brazilians investigated was not disclosed.
According to the PF, one of the investigated has a previous conviction, by the Common Justice of the Federal District, for the practice of the same crimes.
The PF carried out a search and seizure warrant at his house in Brasília. Police seized electronic devices.
If convicted, the penalty for the conduct, now investigated, totals ten years in prison and a fine. And if the production of pedophilia and rape of vulnerable content is proven, the penalty rises to 25 years in prison.
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In another operation, in Goiás, the PF launched the Web Segura operation to combat the acquisition, storage and sharing of child pornography on the internet.
Federal police served two search and seizure warrants at the homes of those being investigated, in the cities of Turvelândia (GO) and Paranaiguara (GO).
According to the investigations, the PF found that the targets of the operation would have acquired and stored material containing scenes of child sexual exploitation. One of the investigated still responds process for the practice of domestic violence, according to the PF, in note.
The action launched today aims to deepen the investigations, obtaining evidence in addition to those already gathered in the police investigation, such as child pornography materials stored in electronic devices, and information and data that may demonstrate the involvement of other people in the crimes.
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The action of the DF is from the Police Station for the Repression of Cyber Crimes (DRCC) of the PF Superintendence in the Federal District. This year, the PF created this type of police station in all states of Brazil, as announced by CNN in March.
At the time, in an interview with CNN the director of Repression of Cyber Crimes of the PF, delegate Otávio Margonari Russo, and the general coordinator for combating cyber crime, Cassiana Saad de Carvalho, explained that there are ongoing projects to create new technologies to combat child sexual crimes and also bank fraud.
The Dciber board was created this year, in the new management of the PF. Before, it was a division and it didn’t have all the structure and support it has now. “This is a message that this administration has as a priority, in fact, the fight against this type of crime”, said Russo.
There are three coordinations within the board: high technology crimes, such as attacks on public bodies; bank fraud; and, third, sexual crimes against children and adolescents on the Internet.
Source: CNN Brasil
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