A 37-year-old man from Roditis who will be tried in early November by the Mixed Jury Court of Kos is accused of possession and distribution of child pornography material linked to the use of minors who have not reached the age of 15.

The case was solved at the beginning of 2017 by the Electronic Crime Prosecution Directorate in collaboration with Europol.
More specifically, in the context of an investigation carried out by police officers in England to identify foreigners involved in such cases, possession, distribution and production of sexual abuse material, the involvement of two individuals from the Greek Territory was found.

All this information was given in the context of international police cooperation to the Directorate for the Prosecution of Electronic Crime, from which it was properly utilized, while at the same time the Athens District Attorney’s Office was also informed, which at the end of October 2016, issued a will to remove the confidentiality of the communications. From the immediate digital – online police investigation that followed, as well as from correspondence with internet and telephone service providers, the electronic traces in question were geographically identified, in a residence where the 37-year-old citizen resided, in Rhodes.

In this context, on Friday 3 February 2017, a team of police officers from the Electronic Crime Prosecution Directorate, with the assistance of police officers from the Rhodes Security Sub-Directorate, in the presence of a judicial officer, conducted a search at the 37-year-old’s house, where (3) computer hard drives were found and confiscated .

From the on-site investigation carried out in the above digital persuasions, a number of files, photos and videos were found, with the content of minor pornography, several of which present the sexual abuse of children, and the 37-year-old was arrested in the spontaneous process. As far as the seized digital evidence is concerned, they were sent to the relevant Department of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for further laboratory investigation.

It is noted that the 37-year-old man, according to the data in the case file, allegedly committed the offenses between February 5 and August 8, 2016.

The 37-year-old was charged with a felony and he was referred to apologize before the investigating officer Rhodes, where he denied the charges as they were attributed to him.

According to information, the 37-year-old had allegedly claimed that he was facing serious psychological problems because of which he resorted to these images that were found in his possession.

After the completion of the procedure with the consent of the competent prosecutor, the 37-year-old was released with the restrictive conditions of a ban on leaving the country, his appearance twice a month at the police station of his area and the payment of a guarantee of 3,000 euros. His trial has been set for May 8 at the Joint Jury Court of Kos.