Overview
- The National Police and prosecutors, who carried out simultaneous raids Thursday, detained three suspects in Ate, Rímac and Callao.
- Police seized phones, laptops, tablets and SIM cards for analysis.
- A judge ordered seven days of preliminary detention to let investigators run digital forensic exams and follow-up searches.
- Police say the group shared child abuse images in closed WhatsApp and Telegram chats with about 30 members and sold access through bank transfers and digital wallets.
- Officials named the detainees as Andrés Sánchez Pascual, César Antonio Trujillo Villar and John Jairo Ávila González, and are probing links to a wider network in Latin America and Europe.