08 May 2008 - Updated

LYON, France – Within 48 hours of INTERPOL’s global appeal to the public, the prime suspect, Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, from Union City, New Jersey, who was photographed sexually abusing young children in Southeast Asia in images distributed on the Internet was identified, located and arrested in Union City by Special Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) based in Newark, New Jersey.

As a result of independent tips provided via the Internet to INTERPOL Headquarters in Lyon by three individuals living in the United States, the suspected child sex abuser targeted by INTERPOL’s Operation IDent, launched May 6, was arrested in the early hours of May 8 by ICE Agents.

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09 May 2008 - Media advisory

INTERPOL will formally present the public report and findings on its forensic examination of seized FARC computers and hardware to the Colombian authorities at the headquarters of the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) in Bogota at 10:00 a.m. local time (15:00 GMT) on Thursday 15 May, immediately followed by a press conference.  The classified report will be delivered to the Colombian authorities beforehand.

Under the terms of the agreement signed with Colombia in Bogota on Wednesday 12 March, INTERPOL’s assistance included the deployment of an Incident Response Team (IRT) to Bogota to obtain mirror images of the content data of the three laptop computers, three USB thumb keys and two external hard disks in order to carry out an independent computer forensic technical examination of that content data.

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