Computer crime

A total of 101 suspects have been arrested on charges of trading in child pornography over the past three years, according to figures submitted in Parliament by the head of the Greek Police’s Cyber Crime Unit, Manolis Sfakianakis.

Officers of Greek police’s cyber crimes unit on Friday detained a 36-year-old man alleged to have made sexual advances to minors over the Internet.

The suspect is believed to have used social networking websites to approach young girls and convince them to send him sexually explicit photographs of themselves which he is said to have shared with other web users.

The Greek police’s cyber crimes unit has blocked access in Greece to 23 illegal gambling sites that allowed users to bet on World Cup soccer matches.

Officers said that the sites’ servers were located outside Greece in places such as Britain, Belize, Austria, Malta, Panama, Russia and Israel and that they were breaking the country’s strict gambling laws.

BELGRADE - Serbian experts in the fight against cyber-crime won a great international recognition at the seat of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg recently as Serbian Special Prosecutor for High-Tech Crime Branko Stamenkovic was appointed member of the Steering Committee of the Convention on Cybercrime.

Three people were arrested in Italy and four in Bulgaria in an operation aimed at intercepting a Bulgarian credit card fraud ring, according to Europol.

The arrests of the seven suspects last week were the result of an investigation of over one year.