25 Years In Prison For Processing Child Porn Payments
NEWARK, N.J. - Both the president and technical administrator of Regpay, which prosecutors termed a child pornography and money-laundering enterprise, were sentenced to 25 years in federal prison yesterday for their roles in running the ring, which authorities say had thousands of subscribers worldwide.
U.S. District Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh also levied a $25,000 fine on Yahor Zalatarou, 27, of Minsk; Belarus, president of Regpay Co. LTD; and Aliaksandr Boika, 30, also of Minsk and the company’s technical administrator.
Authorities seized $1.15 million from the operation.
“Child pornography and those who profit from it are a blight on civilized society,” says U.S. attorney Christopher Christie. “These two defendants will spend their adult lives in prison, because they care more about money than the lives of innocent young children.”
On Feb. 28, 2005, the day before jury selection was to start, both Zalatarou and Boika pleaded guilty. Zalatarou pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport and ship, by way of computer, images of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Boika pleaded guilty to conspiracy to advertise child pornography, and both men also pleaded guilty to their roles in the conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Regpay ran a global Internet pornography business that had thousands of paid memberships to dozens of websites featuring children. Along with operating several of its own websites, the company earned millions of dollars by processing credit card fees for more than 50 other websites. The Regpay websites were operated from Minsk, Belarus, and were hosted by Internet service companies in the U.S. and abroad.
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Good stuff, the more of these people that can get locked up the better :)
Regards,
Lee
