Hong Kong police arrest two men in crackdown on website selling more than 30,000 upskirt photos and videos


Website was set up in 2017 and offered obscene videos and photos for sale for as much as HK$400 each. One suspect was allegedly the administrator of the website, while the other was hired to take indecent photos up women’s skirts. — SCMP

Hong Kong police have arrested two men in a crackdown on a four-year-old website that offered more than 30,000 illicit upskirt photos and videos for sale for as much as HK$400 (RM217) each.

One of the two suspects, a 36-year-old company director, was the alleged administrator of the website, which was set up in 2017 and boasted more than 50,000 members, according to acting superintendent Cheung Wai-ho of the force’s cybersecurity and technology crime bureau.

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