Arrested in Vitoria for storing and distributing almost 140,000 files of pedophile content

According to a statement from the Government Delegation in the Basque Country, The research, carried out for more than five months, She has been supervised by the Court of Instruction 4 of Vitoria-Gasteiz.

The operation, developed with the international collaboration of different police services, began with the “systematic and periodic tracking” of file sharing networks called ‘peer to peer’ which, both nationally and internationally, is carried out by of the Cybercrime Unit of the National Police.

The main objective of this type of tracking is the search, location and identification of users who could be downloading and distributing material with pedophile content. The investigations resulted in the geolocation in Vitoria of a IP address suspected of committing that illegal activity.

After various inquiries, the address of the user of the ‘peer to peer’ network, responsible for the use and distribution of the traced pedophile content files, was located and the Vitoria Police Court of Instruction was requested to agree to the entry and registration in the housing, as well as access to electronic devices that were found, and their subsequent intervention.

Almost 140,000 files

Almost 140,000 files of “extremely crude” pedophile content were found inside the computer, with images of minors “subjected to acts of a sexual nature.”

For more than five months, the files, mostly images, They were extracted thanks to the forensic technology available to the specialists who participated in the operation. This activity is not limited only to extraction and decryption, but also finds out the access routes and digital distribution channels that, in cases like this, are necessary for the trafficking of pedophile material.