A blackmailer, after a nude photo shoot, extorted a 38‑year‑old woman for 12 years! The case, which involves violation of personal data legislation, illegal violence and blackmail, against a 38‑year‑old woman, was investigated by the Cybercrime Directorate.
For this case, a 50‑year‑old was arrested in an ex parte procedure, and a related file was opened against him.
The investigation into the case began after a complaint by the 38-year-old to the Cybercrime Prosecution Directorate, according to which in 2003, responding to an advertisement for professional photography , in exchange for a monetary reward, she came into contact with the 50-year-old arrested person.
According to the complaint, after the initial photoshoot the 50-year-old convinced the 38-year-old to take a nude photoshoot and then threatened her, until today (for 12 consecutive years), that he would share these photos on the internet and to people in her family environment, forcing her to take further nude photos.
Since mid-2004, the 50-year-old, using the same threats, forced the 38-year-old to have sexual intercourse with unknown persons in exchange for money, even using acts of violence against her to overcome her objections.
Since 2008 the 50-year-old used the 38-year-old only for nude photo shoots, due to her reported suicide attempt, and since 2014 he also forced her to take off her clothes in front of a computer camera, connected to the internet in a live stream, via a specific website, where each user paid an online subscription.
The above reported matters were brought before the Athens Prosecutor's Office of the First Instance and the conduct of a preliminary examination was ordered, to investigate them, as well as to provide the necessary evidence and data from the responsible telecommunications and Internet service providers.
Within the framework of the preliminary examination, a thorough and comprehensive police and digital – online investigation of the digital evidence and data was carried out and the 50-year-old was identified as involved in the illegal activity.
Following the above, in the context of investigating the case, in the morning hours of yesterday (15-9-2015), searches were carried out, in the presence of a Judicial Officer, at the home and workplace of the 50-year-old, where his participation in the acts under investigation was also digitally verified.
In particular, from the on-site digital search of the electronic storage media owned by the 50-year-old (computers, servers, etc.), hundreds of files (photographs, videos) of erotic content were found and seized, depicting – in addition to the 38-year-old – other naked women, whose details are being sought to be verified. These files were allegedly obtained in a similar manner, with the aim of their fraudulent and financial exploitation.
More specifically, the following were found and seized:
• a stationary PC, which contains four internal hard drives in a RAID configuration,
• a stationary PC used as a file server, containing three internal hard drives,
• 120 photographs of naked women and a photo album with 31 photographs of similar content, and
• two memory cards
In addition, evidence of payment transactions - payments of money in the name of the 50-year-old from the disputed website were found and seized, which demonstrate his speculation from the above illegal activity.
The digital evidence that was seized will be sent to the Criminal Investigations Directorate for the appropriate laboratory tests, while at the same time the 50-year-old's participation - involvement in any other similar and related criminal acts is being investigated.
The arrested person will be brought, with the case file filed against him, to the Athens First Instance Prosecutor's Office.
Source: zougla.gr
