A resident of Novopolotsk is suspected of distributing child pornography videos on the Internet

April 20, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Law enforcement agencies of the Vitebsk region have detained a resident of Novopolotsk suspected of distributing videos with child pornography on the Internet. This was announced today to journalists by the head of the department for uncovering crimes in the field of high technologies of the criminal police of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Georgy Yablonsky, BELTA correspondent reports. A crime of this kind has been detected for the first time in the Vitebsk region, Georgy Yablonsky emphasized. Law enforcement officers have established that the man, born in 1984, had been distributing pornography on one of the file-sharing networks since September 2009. Computer equipment was seized from the young man, on the hard drive of which more than 300 pornographic videos were found, including those involving children. The suspect distributed the materials but was not involved in filming them, Georgy Yablonsky stressed. The motives and goals of his activities are being clarified during the investigation. According to the representative of the Internal Affairs Directorate, sufficient evidence has been collected to initiate a criminal case on the fact of the suspect distributing videos on the Internet containing pornographic materials involving minors and young children. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 2 of Article 343'1 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, which provides for up to 8 years of imprisonment. -0-