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What is the relationship of the Dark Web to the crime of the Shubra Al-Kheima child… and the story of the Internet?

07:10 PM Friday, April 26, 2024

Written by Saber Al-Mahlawi:

The Public Prosecution revealed the mystery of the incident of finding the body of a child in Shubra Al-Kheima, a victim of organ trafficking, confirming that the child, “Ahmed S.,” 15 years old, residing in Shubra Al-Kheima in Qalyubia Governorate, was a victim of a gang working in organ trade via “video call” between them and selling them. Video of the crime in astronomical sums via illegal Internet sites, the Dark Web.

As soon as they heard the word “dark web”, which was the main reason behind the crime, some wondered what the dark web had to do with the crime of the Shubra Al-Kheima child?

“The Dark Web, the Dark Internet”… is a part of the Internet that is not visible to regular search engines such as Google or Bing. Access to it requires the use of special programs and technologies, such as the Tor browser, which provides anonymity and encryption.

The Dark Web contains a variety of content, some of which is illegal, such as prohibited items, such as drugs, weapons, and counterfeit products, stolen data, such as credit cards and personal information, pornographic content, including child exploitation, and criminal activities, such as human trafficking and hacking computer systems.

Investigations revealed that the accused, residing in Egypt, was communicating with another person in Kuwait via social media platforms and asked him to bring a child and kill him in preparation for the process of stealing his organs via a “video call” between them and selling the video of the crime for astronomical sums via illegal internet sites, the Dark Web.

The Public Prosecution announced the preliminary results in the investigations into Case No. 1820 of 2024, Administrative Officer of the First Department of Shubra Al-Kheima, regarding the discovery of the body of a 15-year-old child in one of the rented residential apartments.

The investigations and investigations that lasted for nearly a week resulted that the crime was committed with an imaginary motive, which is organ trafficking, where a teenager who had not yet reached the age of 17 took over pulling the strings of his coffee to implement his diabolical plan, but his real motive was simply to film a video clip of the crime of organ theft, which would make him extremely rich in a short time without effort. From him through another person who controls him after luring him with millions of pounds.

The Public Prosecution’s inspection of the scene of the accident resulted in the presence of the victim’s body. Some of his entrails had been removed and placed in a bag next to his body. Investigations led to the perpetrator of the incident.

When the accused was arrested and interrogated, he confessed to committing the crime at the request of an Egyptian residing in the State of Kuwait, whom he met through a social media site related to the trade in human organs.

The accused murderer explained that the instigator asked him to choose one of the children to steal his human organs in exchange for 5 million pounds, and after he chose his victim and presented it to him via “video call” technology.

The instigator asked him to take the child’s life in preparation for stealing his human organs, provided that the process of extracting the organs would also be transmitted via “video call” technology.

He stated that the instigator told him that he would be informed of the next steps after doing so, but after he did what was asked of him, he asked him to repeat the matter with another child to obtain the agreed upon amount, but he was caught before doing so.

The prosecution confirmed that it did not find any medical equipment during its inspection indicating that the purpose was the trade in human organs.

Investigations resulted in identifying the Egyptian defendant residing in Kuwait who used a mobile phone equipped with a SIM card owned by his father to commit the crime.

Based on the instructions of the Counselor, the Public Prosecutor, the International Cooperation Department in the Public Prosecutor’s Office assumed contact with the competent authorities in the State of Kuwait and the International Interpol. Which resulted in the arrest of the accused and his father, as well as the electronic devices in their possession.

The instigator and his father were deported to Egypt, so the Public Prosecution began interrogating them to determine the reasons for committing the crime.

The accused instigator, who was over fifteen years old, admitted that he was the one who instructed the perpetrator to commit the crime, as stated in his confession, intending to keep the visual clips of the killing of the child victim and the mutilation of his body, so that he would have the opportunity to sell them and publish them through the websites that broadcast them in exchange for Huge sums of money.

He also decided that he had previously committed this act on previous occasions, and the validity of this is being verified by examining the electronic devices of the accused and his father, who was arrested with him and denied his connection to those incidents.