Seven arrested over child porn

FUKUOKA —

Seven men and women have been arrested in Fukuoka for allegedly violating the child pornography law, police said Tuesday. Investigators in Fukuoka and Tokyo confiscated hundreds of computer hard drives and other equipment the seven allegedly used to sell illegal video clips on the Internet, police said.

Ken Morimoto, 41, president of a Fukuoka-based company that operates a website featuring child pornography, and his six employees were taken into custody. Morimoto’s web servers are in Hong Kong, and customers are directed to servers in the U.S. before they download video files from the Hong Kong servers, police said. But police said they discovered the same files in Morimoto’s computers as those in his severs overseas, leading to the arrests.

Since Morimoto started his website in September 2007, its membership to more than 6,000 and his company has raked in an estimated 200 million yen, police said
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