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| Alladin is escorted by police personnel at the court, in Kuching, in August. – photo by DayakDaily |
How one of world's most wanted paedophiles nabbed in Sarawak
Daily Express
5/9/2021
FOR at least 14 years, Alladin Lanim had been sexually abusing children between the ages of two and 16, undetected.
5/9/2021
FOR at least 14 years, Alladin Lanim had been sexually abusing children between the ages of two and 16, undetected.
The 40-year-old posted his exploits on the dark web and boasted on messaging forums about recording his crimes, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
After a lengthy international investigation, Alladin – one of the world’s most wanted paedophiles who operated in Lundu, Sarawak, has finally been apprehended and jailed while four children aged nine to 14 have been rescued.
It was only through the cooperation of Australian enforcement authorities and the Malaysian police that Alladin’s criminal activities were stopped.
He had been on the authority’s radar since 2019, with his online alias considered among the top 10 child sexual porn images and videos.
Alladin had been sharing child abuse material on the web since 2007 and has been linked to more than 1,000 images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of minors.
However, police had nothing more on the man they were pursuing than his anonymous online profile. Discovering his name and then finding him was the hard part.
In August 2020, though, experts at the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation’s victim identification unit made a breakthrough.
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The Australian authorities came across a social media image of the man they suspected they were looking for.
After sending the picture to Malaysia, Australian Federal Police officers in Kuala Lumpur and the Royal Malaysian Police and the United States Homeland Security investigators then raced to put a name to it.
Eventually, a team at Australian government’s financial intelligence agency, was able to put together another key piece in the puzzle.
As they was looking through financial and other records, they came across the same image as the one that had been forwarded to Kuala Lumpur from Australia months earlier, this time with identifying information attached.
In July, the Australian investigators assisted in tracking him to a state Covid-19 quarantine facility, where he was being quarantined after arriving back in Sarawak following a trip to the peninsula.
When Alladin was allowed out of quarantine on July 5, he was arrested.
Six weeks later, he pleaded guilty to 18 charges and was sentenced to 48 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane.
Australian investigators, who provided a package of material to prosecutors in Kuching, identified 34 victims he had abused but believe there may have been more.
The Australian authorities came across a social media image of the man they suspected they were looking for.
After sending the picture to Malaysia, Australian Federal Police officers in Kuala Lumpur and the Royal Malaysian Police and the United States Homeland Security investigators then raced to put a name to it.
Eventually, a team at Australian government’s financial intelligence agency, was able to put together another key piece in the puzzle.
As they was looking through financial and other records, they came across the same image as the one that had been forwarded to Kuala Lumpur from Australia months earlier, this time with identifying information attached.
In July, the Australian investigators assisted in tracking him to a state Covid-19 quarantine facility, where he was being quarantined after arriving back in Sarawak following a trip to the peninsula.
When Alladin was allowed out of quarantine on July 5, he was arrested.
Six weeks later, he pleaded guilty to 18 charges and was sentenced to 48 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane.
Local media reported that he had molested children at a plantation and on the veranda of a house in Lundu and induced them to view pornographic material by letting them play a game on his phone.
Australian investigators, who provided a package of material to prosecutors in Kuching, identified 34 victims he had abused but believe there may have been more.
Source: Daily Express
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