An 18-year-old boy arrested as the alleged perpetrator of the first crime in the world of the metaverse

Agents of

the

have arrested

as the alleged perpetrator of multiple crimes of corruption of minors, possession and distribution of child pornography and sexual exploitation of minors through the Internet.

This is the first arrest for a crime in the world of the metaverse and it has occurred within the framework of 'Operation Suzaku'.

The investigation began in May 2022, when

had been tricked, through an online application, into

to another user of that same application.

The environment in which the reported events took place was an application available for the recently released Android and iOS operating systems.

This app is focused on the creation of communities of users interested in the metaverse and has quickly become popular among minors, through other better-known applications such as

or

, they have indicated from the General Directorate of the Police through a note press.

Police officers in charge of the investigation located the user with whom the victim interacted in Spain, in addition to knowing that he carried out an intense chat activity with numerous accounts used by minors, for which he had created a profile under

with

, designed to attract attention and gain the trust of underage girls.

He made contact with numerous minors following the typical scheme of action of criminal pedophiles -'child groomers'-.

After gaining the trust of the girls, she managed to get them to send her photographs and videos of a sexual nature, exchanging this material with them, for which she used files obtained from other victims, which she sent as her own.

The alleged perpetrator is

and with no previous police record, as revealed by the technical investigation.

The Investigating Court 4 of Zaragoza has taken charge of the chaos, which once obtained the evidence of the involvement in the denounced facts of the investigated authorized the practice of a search in his family home.

For further analysis,

and the telephone terminal that he used for his criminal activity and where he kept the graphic material obtained from the minor complainant, as well as files from other minors, have been found.

Likewise, the account used for the commission of the criminal acts was intervened judicially, carrying out a preliminary analysis of it in which twenty chats with minor girls were detected in which the young man requested and sent photographs and videos of an explicit sexual nature. .

Since the detainee was 17 years old at the time of committing the denounced acts, the Madrid Juvenile Prosecutor's Office ordered that once the police arrest procedures were completed, he was released.

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