Three girls from the Spanish port city of La Coruña allowed their capture by expert cybersecurity investigators from that country and Colombia. to a “dangerous potential sexual predator” operating in six countries.
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The complaint from parents of under 14s has alarmed authorities, after reviewing hundreds of web pages and network profiles. They discovered that the harasser was in an area of Colombia.
After informing Interpol and Dijín intelligence officials and An operation was launched to find her, by sharing profiles of the subject, interacting with her through profiles where she allowed him to approach Hispanic girls and other minors in different countries.
According to research, He had four profiles on Instagram and Omegle platforms, where she pretends to be a teenager, posting pictures that don’t fit her identity: Kevin Fontalvo is a 42-year-old Colombian.
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This strategy allowed him to chat with hundreds of girls and adolescents from around the world. Peru, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Spain, Venezuela and Colombia.
In these accounts he called himself ‘Xeneize’, An adjective with which fans of the Boca Juniors football club in Argentina are usually described.
But the profiles also contained factual information about the offender, which allowed the authorities to find out his full identity and locate the stated sexual harasser using the same model: to pretend to be small with the admiration of a teenager, but at the same time to have the cunning to achieve his goal.
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In chats, this guy managed to gain the girls’ trust to get sensitive content; once he had it he put pressure on them to send them further material or otherwise disclose it on the networks.
“The authorities activated the international cooperation channel and located it via the IP address of a computer with internet access,” Major Adrián Vega, head of the Dijín police cybercentre, told EL TIEMPO.
The meticulous follow-up determined that the person was found in a house in Bursa. Atlántico is the trendy Kennedy neighborhood southwest of Barranquilla.
Until there, a forward guard of Dijín was mobilized to carry out the capture.
“In this raid, 100 sexually explicit images and 860 videos were found on various mobile phones and a computer.said Major Vega.
It was found that this material was used for personal consumption; however, it is being investigated whether some of this content has been commercialized and entangled in the networks of dangerous mafias dedicated to such sexual crimes.
After the arrest was carried out, the 1st investigative court of La Coruña requested Colombia’s arrest. The expulsion of a person under the age of 18 and a man for pornography.
The petition is currently in the hands of the ministry. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Supreme Court and the Attorney General will determine the future of the process.
“This is the first collaboration with Spain on child pornography crimes. If the landing takes place, it will be the first time such a situation has occurred in the country,” he said.
‘Xeneize’ is a prisoner in the Atlantic capital, awaiting his progress.
Colonel Olga Patricia Salazar Sánchez, Director of Criminal Investigation and Interpol, stated that 16,000 pages have been blocked or suspended so far this year. child sexual abuse content.
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“41 people were arrested for similar crimes. Most of these arrests Cali, Bogota, Medellin and Villavicencio”, said Colonel Salazar Sánchez.
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