Moldovian arrested in crackdown on child porn website

By Kornkamon Aksorndech 
The Nation

 

 

 

A Moldovian national was arrested at his rented home in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Thab Sakae district on Tuesday over accusations that he had reaped benefits from a website that earned Bt123 million per year from feeding child pornographic materials to others, police told a press conference in Bangkok on Wednesday.

 

The arrest of the 30-year-old suspect, Serghei Cependiuc, was the result of cooperation between the Thai police and their Netherlands counterparts, Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) commander Pol Maj-General Worawat Watnakhonbancha said. 

 

 

The joint investigation found a website providing services in uploading and downloading audio and video files of child pornographic materials to customers who were required to pay US$19.95 (Bt635) per month, he said. 

 

The investigation found that the website earned around US$3.8 million (Bt123 million) and a Dominica-registered company was running it while Cependiuc was identified as one of the website’s administrators, he said. An arrest warrant was issued for Cependiuc, who has been in and out of Thailand since 2009 and has a Thai wife. He was arrested along with allegedly 18 items of evidence. 

 

 

Police investigation so far has found that Cependiuc served as the website’s administrator to manage data and materials – all of which were of foreign girls. Police said there was no Thai victim or Thai accomplice. Worawat said Cependiuc would face prosecution in Thailand. 

 

Netherland police technology crime suppression commander Gert Ras said his agency had first investigated the website and then contacted the Thai police after locating one of the culprits was living in Thailand.

 

 

Besides the operation that netted Cependiuc in southern Thailand and the Netherlands police closing the website, another related operation was conducted in Bulgaria, resulting in the arrest of website administrator and Moldovian national Alexander Osadcii. 

 

It was suspected that tens of thousands people were involved in uploading child pornographic video clips onto this website, he added. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30345552

 

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Good. Track back the credit card payments and jail every single one of the perverts buying this sick shit. I don't personally care where they get prosecuted, simply that they are.

Good job. You can run, but you cannot hide ©

8 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Good. Track back the credit card payments and jail every single one of the perverts buying this sick shit. I don't personally care where they get prosecuted, simply that they are.

Unbeleivable, but it says that "tens of thousands of people were uploading child porn on to that site", all probably from various countries and possibly for some monetary gain. Going to be one hell of a job finding and bringing them all to justice. What is the world coming to??

"they" the criminals always seemed to have a Thai wife.

That´s great! Throw him out, but do not forget to cut of his essential details first.

54 minutes ago, saakura said:

Unbeleivable, but it says that "tens of thousands of people were uploading child porn on to that site", all probably from various countries and possibly for some monetary gain. Going to be one hell of a job finding and bringing them all to justice. What is the world coming to??

 

This is one of those crimes that we hope is committed by only a few disturbed individuals, but it is becoming clear that this is actually a somewhat popular genre of porn.  It's not uncommon to see adult businessmen on subway trains in Japan reading pre-teen school girl porn "comic books" right out in the open.  They make no effort to hide it.  If that's what's happening in public, I can't imagine what's going on in private.  Porn Hub reports that globally, words like teen and hentai are always in the top ten list of search terms.

 

Clearly there is a demand.

1 hour ago, saakura said:

Unbeleivable, but it says that "tens of thousands of people were uploading child porn on to that site", all probably from various countries and possibly for some monetary gain. Going to be one hell of a job finding and bringing them all to justice. What is the world coming to??

Hardly seems credible, and probably isn't. Most likely teen selfie videos lifted from social media sites, and then traded. Certainly illegal [if the girl is under 18] nonetheless. Not forgetting whoever is making the video is also breaking the law. 

I read on a post on one of the big national thai newspapers something like:

 

"According to the news reports in dutch papers, they took 87 servers in the Netherlands off-line and confiscated the IP-addresses of approximately 50,000 paying visitors in 119 countries.

 

123 million baht.  jesus.  that kind of speaks to the scale of the events.  Sad to see such large numbers and peoples involved

can anyone guess what Abba song the cop is singing 

 

 

anyway lock this ahole up or maybe not...………………………...money number one

9 hours ago, Jeremy50 said:

Hardly seems credible, and probably isn't. Most likely teen selfie videos lifted from social media sites, and then traded. Certainly illegal [if the girl is under 18] nonetheless. Not forgetting whoever is making the video is also breaking the law. 

Actually, It's a file sharing site, similar to rapidshare, 1fichier, or uploaded. Plenty of regular movies or series on it. It seems they were closing their eyes about the type of content that was uploaded.

The gulag for any and all involved .... perpetrators get hanged

11 hours ago, Jeremy50 said:

Hardly seems credible, and probably isn't. Most likely teen selfie videos lifted from social media sites, and then traded. Certainly illegal [if the girl is under 18] nonetheless. Not forgetting whoever is making the video is also breaking the law. 

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teen selfie videos ... Not forgetting whoever is making the video is also breaking the law. 

 

Are you sure?

13 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Good. Track back the credit card payments and jail every single one of the perverts buying this sick shit. I don't personally care where they get prosecuted, simply that they are.

 

Probably paid by bitcoin.

A good computer Geek could get all the evidence on who and where the down loaders are ect,. And them send the evidence to their home countries and arrest them dirty scum bags.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

It was suspected that tens of thousands people were involved in uploading child pornographic video clips onto this website, he added.

Tens of tousands of people? The world needs a new cure. The medicin is a high dose of potassium cyanide to get rid of the pack. They are not even worth a place in the worst prison on earth.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

customers who were required to pay US$19.95 (Bt635) per month, he said. 

Must be some pretty dumb pedos out there paying for child porn with a fully traceable credit card

Good work and cooperation by the Dutch and Royal Thai Police.

 

Hope all those connected in other countries get nabbed to.

 

Nice to see the Dutch senior officer wearing his best uniform and resplendent in medal ribbons and Para wings 

An association of individuals at the lowest on the human scale, now they were 50 000 to pay $ 19 a month which is really a lot of money. On the other hand, they came from 119 countries ... but in 119 countries it is practically the whole world of billions of inhabitants so 50,000 seems a huge figure for all these perverts it's still a small percentage of billions of inhabitants.

 This story would be a too good opportunity if the police could get them all as much as they are these bastards it would be a nice haul, 50 000 pédophiles in the net.

15 hours ago, Hong Bong Dynasty said:

"they" the criminals always seemed to have a Thai wife.

yes and none of them can read or speak english or even dutch so they know nothing about hubby's business !

Yes now the media showing their faces of these scumbag foreigners but always forget to show the faces of these local child molesters.

Another issue of double standards.

17 hours ago, Hong Bong Dynasty said:

"they" the criminals always seemed to have a Thai wife.

And your point is what, precisely ?

18 hours ago, Hong Bong Dynasty said:

"they" the criminals always seemed to have a Thai wife.

Well maybe that is because those criminals are the ones living in Thailand.  I doubt the ones living in Africa have Thai wives.

 

19 hours ago, saakura said:

Unbeleivable, but it says that "tens of thousands of people were uploading child porn on to that site", all probably from various countries and possibly for some monetary gain. Going to be one hell of a job finding and bringing them all to justice. What is the world coming to??

I remember about sixteen years ago there was a big bust of an online card processing company who were processing child porn payments.  Big news at the time and caught quite a few "celebs" including Pete Townsend of the Who. It involved hundreds of thousands of people and I think about thirty thousand in the UK.  However not all of them were prosecuted due to lack of actual evidence.

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Must be some pretty dumb pedos out there paying for child porn with a fully traceable credit card

Agree; gonna be a few guys on tenterhooks out there. So was this hsrd-core kiddie porn, or "barely legal" stuff, or a mixture of the two.

21 hours ago, saakura said:

Unbeleivable, but it says that "tens of thousands of people were uploading child porn on to that site", all probably from various countries and possibly for some monetary gain. Going to be one hell of a job finding and bringing them all to justice. What is the world coming to??

Or rather... 'what has the world always been, but now we're revealing the extent of this crime...'

The Russian mafia is involved in anything that wil give them quick money . And illegal porn sells. But more shocking is it that people are stupid enough to use their credit cards to get access to porn, when a google search reveals a lot of it is already free . Another thing is if the moderator of the site knowingly wanted to keep child porn on the server , or if he just wanted teens over legal age 18.

Actually this story a bit confusing. Depfile is a cloud storage / hosting site like Rapidgator, Filemonster etc, there are hundreds of these types of sites.  You would need to get links to content from somewhere else.  I guess basically someone sets up a Child Porn site somewhere on the net and post shit with download links to depfile, so if you want the file you need to buy a depfile account. 

 

I've seen shitloads of depfile links for normal stuff like movies, music, normal porn etc,  so when I see the 50,000 I don't think thats Child porn downloaders, that would be the number of account holders who pay a subscription. I'd say (total guess) 99+% of depfile account holders would not be into Child Porn,  but just pirating or sharing normal stuff. Thats why the number is so outrageously large.

 

In this case I would guess the Moldovian bloke is in trouble for storing someone elses illegal content, companies like google, twitter, facebook etc. I'm sure spend a lot of money to ensure that shit is deleted rather than shared.  I guess these guys didn't and are now paying the price.  Have to assume they knew it was there.

6 hours ago, dunque said:

And your point is what, precisely ?

my point is these criminals living in Thailand have no problem finding women to " married".

you seemed bent out of shape over a simple statement.

 

5 hours ago, dunroaming said:

Well maybe that is because those criminals are the ones living in Thailand.  I doubt the ones living in Africa have Thai wives.

 

 

thx for the brilliant deductive reasoning on your part sir.