TOKYO (TR) – Saitama and Okayama prefectural police last week arrested the manager of an online porn DVD operation that specialized in films featuring children, reports the Saitama Shimbun (May 13).
On May 13, officers took Ikuhisa Otsuka, 42, into custody for violating of child pornography and prostitution statutes regarding the sale of adult videos featuring minors by operating an Web-based shopping site from a one-room apartment in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
According to police, four men living in Saitama and Okayama are alleged to have purchased 48 discs from Otsuka for 23,800 yen between November of last year and March.
Officers also seized seven duplication machines, six computers, three mobile phones, and 20,000 original DVDs.
Otsuka has reportedly admitted to the allegations. “I did it for living and entertainment expenses,” the suspect is quoted by police.
Between 2009 and this year, Otsuka amassed a customer list of 7,000 people and sold 180,000 discs for 65 million yen. The suspect started the business in 2007. The discs were priced at 350 yen each.