CHARGES of violating Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act are being prepared against 17 male Chinese nationals arrested during a raid on an alleged cybersex lair in Iloilo City.
The police raid on the cybersex den located in Barangay Lawa-an in Jaro district was made on the strength of a search warrant issued by Iloilo City Regional Trial Court Branch 39 after more than a month of surveillance.
According to Lt. Col. Antonio Benitez Jr, chief of the City Drugs Enforcement Unit of the Iloilo City Police Office, the raid on the rented house occurred at past 4 a.m., resulting in the arrest of the 17 “who are involved in cybersex.”
In a Manila Bulletin report, the official said the suspects were all of legal age and believed to be facilitators for Filipino and foreign clients of the cybersex operation.
But no models were present when the operation was conducted, he said.
“Based on our information, they have been in operation for more or less six months. Our monitoring and surveillance operations lasted for more than one month,” Benitez said in the Bulletin report.
Seized were 24 computers, 49 cellular phones, two switch hubs TP-link with 24 ports, two routers, one projector, one monitor, one modem, and one bundle and four boxes of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards, police said.
