A Paraguayan court has ordered the freezing of bank accounts and digital assets belonging to four of the thirteen defendants in Operation Icarus, an investigation into the largest virtual fraud scheme ever recorded in the country, causing a loss of G. 9.015 billion against a telecommunications company. The group's leader, 18-year-old Alex Junior Silva Báez, is among those whose accounts on the Binance platform have been blocked.
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Operation Omega, a coordinated action among nine countries, resulted in the arrest of a lawyer in Santa Rita, Alto Paraná, suspected of being part of an international network for the sale and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that used cryptocurrencies for transactions. Prosecutor Ruth Karina Benítez led the execution of a search and seizure warrant, which seized electronic equipment, documents, and digital storage devices. Investigations are underway to determine whether the scheme also involved local production of the material and money laundering.
A lawyer was detained this Monday (18) in Santa Rita, Alto Paraná, during Operation Omega, an international action against child sexual exploitation. He is suspected of storing, distributing, and selling child sexual abuse material, receiving payments in cryptocurrencies. The investigation, which began in 2019, analyzed over 35,000 files and may lead to further arrests abroad.
The National Police and the Public Prosecutor's Office of Paraguay executed Operation Omega, which dismantled a network trading child sexual abuse material that used cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Monero, and Ethereum to conceal transactions. One suspect was arrested in Santa Rita and over 35,000 illicit files were identified.