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THESE three Belarussian men are the evil faces behind the global child pornography empire that involves more than 200 Australians and hundreds more worldwide. From an office in Minsk, Yahor Zalatarou, Alexei Buchnev and Aliaksandr Boika collected millions while their customers accessed depraved websites depicting sexual abuse of children. The trio has been in custody since early this year and since their arrests in Europe, police in 12 countries have moved on more than 1000 subscribers to their operation, Regpay. The US agency which led the Initial investigation that spawned Australia's Operation Auxin - the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - provided the defendants' pictures to The Advertiser this week as nine more American men were arrested in New Jersey. An ICE operation in that state last year led investigators to the Belarussian connection and so far there have been 53 arrests in New Jersey alone. This week's arrests include a psychologist, a former teacher, a bank manager and a school janitor and many more are expected as the investigation, Operation Falcon, continues. "This continuing investigation highlights the global reach of law enforcement into the seediest portions of cyberspace," US Attorney-General John Ashcroft said. New Jersey District Attorney Christopher Christie said Operation Falcon showed child pornography was "a scourge that has spread explosively across the globe aided by the Internet. "It has been a remarkable effort, starting right here in New Jersey, to bring so many people to account worldwide for dealing in this despicable trade in innocent children," he said. To take down the Regpay empire, ICE agents followed a paper trail from New Jersey- and in Europe they were assisted by police in France, Spain, Germany and Belarus. At an Interpol meeting in France this year, police from each nation to which a subscriber link had been found were alerted and subsequent raids were made in Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Norway, Britain, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The ICE file pictures of chief conspirator Zalatarou and marketing director Buchnev are mug shots taken by French police, while the photograph of technical administrator Boika was found in his office computer. The agency was not able to supply the picture of a fourth Regpay employee who remains on the run, 35-year-old Tatsiana Sienko, aka Tatiana Senko, the company's administrative and financial assistant. Adelaide Advertiser (8-10-2004) Anna Cock |
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