The 2004 Ukrainian child pornography raids occurred in July 2004, when police in Ukraine raided a child pornography ring operating in the cities of Kiev, Kharkiv and Simferopol.^[1] The ring had operated since 2001, and used a modeling agency as a front.^[1] Approximately 1,500 girls aged from eight to sixteen were said to have been to the agency. Pornographic and erotic materials produced by the agency were distributed over the internet to the United States and Canada. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in... Generally, child pornography (sometimes referred to as CP, child porn, KP, or kiddie porn) is an illegal form of pornography, featuring minors. ... A monument to St. ... Kharkiv Gosprom Building Kharkiv (ukr. ... Simferopol (Ukrainian, Сімферополь; Russian, Симферополь; Greek, Συμφερόπολις; Tatar, Aqmescit) is the capital city of Crimea, in Ukraine. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A model is a person who acts as a human prop for purposes of art, fashion, advertising, pornography, etc. ... A front organization, also known as a front group (if it is structured to look like a voluntary association); a front company, a shell corporation or simply a front (if it is structured to look like a company), is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization. ...

The Crime Investigation Department of the Ministry for the Interior conducted the raids. The deputy head of the department, Vitaly Yarema, said that the bank accounts of the agency, containing hundreds of thousands of dollars, had been frozen.^[1]

The raids were conducted after a joint investigation between Ukrainian police and the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2005, the United States Department of State announced that there was further cooperation between Ukrainian police and other law enforcement agencies internationally.^[2] Official FBI Seal The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal criminal investigative and intelligence agency which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...

The investigation following the raids was completed by 6 April 2005.^[3] April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ...

References

1. ↑ ^a b c "Police Shut Ukraine Model Agency in Porn Crackdown", Reuters, July 28, 2004.
2. ↑ (2005). 2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Ukraine. (HTML) United States Department of State. URL accessed on 2006-04-07.
3. ↑ "Criminal group involves 1,500 under-age Ukrainian girls in porn business with parents' knowledge", Pravda Online, 6 April, 2005.

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