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South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, October 16, 2019. The Welcome To Video takedown: that "The international investigations were led by the IRS-CI, HSI and the NCA" (with the Korean National Police, the UK NCA and the German BKA providing assistance), and the geographic scope of the 337 charged site users — 24 U.S. states and D.C. plus the United Kingdom, South Korea, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and Australia..

Source type
Government release
Published
October 16, 2019
Research grade
P1
Used in entries
3

Bibliographic record

Publisher
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs
Published
October 16, 2019
Source type
Government release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/south-korean-national-and-hundreds-others-charged-worldwide-takedown-largest-darknet-child
What it supports
The Welcome To Video takedown: that "The international investigations were led by the IRS-CI, HSI and the NCA" (with the Korean National Police, the UK NCA and the German BKA providing assistance), and the geographic scope of the 337 charged site users — 24 U.S. states and D.C. plus the United Kingdom, South Korea, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and Australia.
Dataset id
src_usdoj_welcome_to_video_2019

Research notes

  • Retrieved via the justice.gov press-releases JSON API (title filter), which returned the release date 2019-10-16 and the full body; the archived page URL is live (HTTP 200).

How this source is used

Cited 3 times across 3 record types.

The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.

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Takedown records

1 citation

Cited on the takedown record itself.

Organization roles

1 citation

Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.

Legal actions against people

1 citation

Cited for a recorded legal action against a named person.

  • Jong Woo Son

    Convicted, Welcome to Video seizure

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