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Police corruption
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Bond between police and accusers. Corruption from compensation payments, hush money, extortion, blackmail.
A charter for racketeers
A charter for racketeers
(Important background information to fully understand this is that the police in the US and UK have taken control of all of the originally Internet-based child porn images in those countries and are using them for entrapment purposes.)
On Monday 24 July 2006, CEOP was launched in the UK. Its director Jim Gamble (against whom a complaint has been registered alleging that he knowingly used false information in the promotion of Operation Ore) has already admitted that they intend to create fake paedophile websites over which ‘undercover’ officers will pose as children on Internet chat rooms.
Most significantly, he also admits that CEOP will have a permanent presence in other countries, initially Cambodia, where it will work with local police. Cambodia has just been identified by us as one of the countries where blackmailers operate over the chat rooms, so it may be appropriate that the British police are joining in that industry. They will know that their US counterparts are already active in it there.
We are very keen to know the names of the local Cambodian police officers that CEOP are partnering with as we would like to compare them with those who allegedly work also with local blackmailers or who are being accused of being blackmailers themselves.
(The next story was published before the above when we were first informed about the blackmailing going on in SEA. Only when CEOP announced that it was working with the police in Cambodia did we make a connection.)
Blackmail on the SEA boards
We have been investigating reports of blackmail that is being operated over certain discussion boards that deal with life in South East Asia. By publishing what we have so far we hope to encourage others to contact us with further information.
From the outset it is necessary to say that certain sources must be protected for reasons that will become clearer to readers, but two immediate reasons are that the subject of blackmail is always vulnerable if the facts or allegations being used in the blackmail are publicized and that in the case of SEA in particular other innocent persons may also be put at risk, such as the local girlfriends of ex pats. Hopefully, if this story creates one desired result, it may be possible to be more specific later.
This is what we know is going on. On certain well-known boards, there are frank discussion threads about sex life in SEA, in two countries in particular, Thailand and Cambodia. It should already be clear to readers of this web site that we do not recommend or condone restrictions on freedom of expression, but what we can say is that some of the comments being made on these boards are insensitive in the extreme and sometimes indiscreet, if not reckless. We are not alone in thinking this, because there are blackmailers engaging in the chat, encouraging indiscretions, then setting their traps.
The blackmailers appear to either work with local child protection NGOs or pretend to and work in liaison with the police. Once they identify a careless guy who may have done little else initially than comment on the youthful appearance of local girls he had sex with, they will draw him out in further discussions and then arrange to have CP images emailed to his mailbox. In some cases, because the poster was foolish enough to name brothels he visits, a brothel owner may have had him surreptitiously photographed and passed on the pictures to the blackmailer. If the blackmailer is working with the local police, this is a short step from obtaining his full name and address.
The next critical move is to demand money, to be paid to a reasonably innocent third party, a prostitute perhaps, in exchange for the collected information not being forwarded to local sources such as NGOs and the authorities, who could arrest the poster or at least deport and blacklist him.
If the right amount is demanded by bank draft (that is, over a certain amount) the now struggling fish will have to supply ID as proof of identity and will be truly hooked.
Now for the complicated bit. The cases we have heard about to date have all the hallmarks of simple criminals, probably with police connections, but in addition to these petty criminals the boards are also being monitored by law enforcement agencies and probably by the FBI and its agents. Another assumption that is hard to avoid is that the webmasters know what is going on but feel powerless to stop it. Some have commercial interests such as advertising. Readers who know more are urged to share it in confidence through Contact in the menu on left.
After we first published this, we learned that the UK's new CEOP was moving into the Cambodian deception industry. They may be partnering with the same local police officers who are partners to the local blackmailers.
Police corruption
Come into my parlour said the spider
A charter for racketeers
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