MANILA (AFP) - Fifty-eight people have been arrested in the Philippines for their involvement in a giant, global Internet "sextortion" network, the local police and Interpol announced in a joint press conference on Friday.
Victims in foreign countries have been lured by people in the Philippines into giving sexually explicit photos or videos about themselves online, then blackmailed for many thousands of dollars, the authorities said.
“The scale of this extortion network is massive,” the director of Interpol’s Digital Crime Centre, Sanjay Virmani said. “These crimes are not limited to any one country and nor are the victims. That’s why international cooperation in investigating these crimes is essential.”
Philippine police chief Alan Purisima said the 58 people arrested would be charged over a range of crimes, including engaging in child pornography, extortion and using technologies to commit fraud.
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