GENEVA — Swiss police said on Tuesday (May 30) that a secret operation using the profile of a convicted paedophile had allowed them to identify over 2,200 child sex offenders and users of child pornography worldwide.
The revelations made over the course of several years through the operation, dubbed Ninja Turtle, enabled arrests in Switzerland and several other countries, police in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau said in a statement.
Police tracked down the person hiding behind the pseudonym — a 62-year-old German man — who was convicted in 2015. "The multi-year covert operation on the internet was a success: 2,200 pedo-criminals were unmasked," the police statement said.
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