By Deborah Schofield, 27 March 2001 11:00
NEWS Customs officials infiltrated a website producing and distributing child pornography, including a catalogue of videos priced between $200 and $300 each. The site had at least 80 customers around the globe. Some of the obscene material featured the sexual abuse of children as young as eight years old. With international co-operation, Operation Blue Orchid, named after the site, has so far led to the arrest of four Americans and five Russians and inquiries are continuing in Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands.
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