Peru police arrest internet predator accused of blackmailing more than 500 children across the world

Peru police arrest internet predator accused of blackmailing more than 500 children across the world to perform sex acts on camera

• Arturo Dodero Tello detained after undercover operation by Spanish and Peruvian police
  
• Tello 'blackmailed more than 500 victims as young as six' to make naked videos of themselves
  
• Children from Spain, Ukraine, Peru, Argentina and Chile targeted
  
• Police seize more than 200 videos during search of his home in Lima
  

By Gerard Couzens

PUBLISHED: 09:45 EST, 2 December 2013 | UPDATED: 10:49 EST, 2 December 2013

An internet predator accused of blackmailing more than 500 children across the world into performing sex acts on camera before he sold the images has been arrested in Peru.

Arturo Dodero Tello, 29, considered the most prolific paedophile in the Spanish-speaking world, was detained on Thursday after an 18-month dual-continent undercover operation by police in Spain and Peru.

Tello faces charges of targeting children in countries across South America and Europe - including Peru, Argentina, Chile, Ukraine and Spain, and selling the videos he made of them across the world.

He is also accused of belonging to an international sex gang.

Police investigators claim he befriended his victims by using an email account where he posed as a schoolboy using the alias Maxi. He would then persuade his victims to take photos and videos in just their underwear.

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