ARRESTS IN SINGAPORE
The 11 men arrested in Singapore are aged between 22 and 44.
Those arrested, and the 16 people assisting with investigations, are suspected of:
- Producing, possessing, gaining access to and distributing child sexual abuse
- Sexual communication with a minorÂ
- Committing offences relating to commercial sex with minorsÂ
- Threatening to distribute intimate images or recordingsÂ
- Transmitting and selling of obscene materials
- Possessing obscene films
Early investigations found that eight of them knowingly accessed, downloaded and possessed child sexual abuse materials through online messaging platforms and “peer-to-peer services”, SPF said.
In one case, the police investigated two men, aged 26 and 28, for making cross-border payments to access obscene materials through a Telegram channel.
