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Trail Of Depravity Led Back To Russian Mafia Stronghold


THE biggest child pornography crackdown in Australia's history can be traced to an office block in Minsk, Belarus, a corner of the former Soviet Union the mafia calls home.
Last year, a US child porn taskforce, headed by the FBI and dubbed Operation Falcon, followed a trail of credit card transactions to a Minsk company trading under the name Regpay Ltd. Behind the corporate facade were three 20-something gangsters, posing as Internet executives. Their business thrived on providing sickening images of children to buyers in countries, including the US and Australia. Regpay supplied material to about 20 US websites which then on- sold the material.
Last July, the US authorities tracked the porn merchants to Paris and Madrid, With the help of the French and Spanish governments, Regpay managers Yahor Zaiatarou, Alexei Buchnev and Aliaksandr Boika were put behind bars and extradited to the US.
As Operation Falcon made the first round of arrests in January, Australian law enforcers began receiving word a child pornography ring was thriving in capital cities.
In a disturbing twist, the profile of the offenders matched those arrested in the US.
Adelaide Advertiser (1-10-2004)
Luke McIlveen
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