NICOSIA’S Criminal Investigation Division are investigating reports that Cypriots are involved in an Internet-based child pornography ring, police confirmed yesterday.
Reports in Alithia newspaper yesterday said Greek police officials were investigating incestuous child pornography websites with links to the island. Specifically, on Saturday, Cyprus’ Interpol was contacted in writing concerning the case, after its Attica Service Minors Protection Department received information that certain individuals had designed a website using a Cypriot Internet Services company, said the paper.
But, according to Alithia, the two names Greek authorities had given police turned out to be a false lead, since they did not exist.
Nonetheless, the report quoted reliable sources as saying further developments in Greece would more than likely lead to arrests of people linked to the child pornography ring in Cyrus as well.
In Greece, a 44-year-old businessman and 23-year-old man are being held in connection with the case. Meanwhile, investigators are said to be carrying out examinations on a computer, CD-ROM and several floppy disks belonging to the former.
Police in Cyprus were yesterday unwilling to discuss details of the case and only said the information they had received was being investigated.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
