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LS Studio, also admits as LS, in as child and Jugendmodellstudio camouflaged was Ukrainian Enterprise for the production of kinderpornografischen Pictures and videos.

Between 2001 and his smashing in August 2004 has as Artist agency camouflaged enterprises of about 500 (other sources speak of 1500) Ukrainian children and young people of both sexes at the age of eight to sixteen years, mostly naked and in clear floats, photographs. The pictures became over web pages or in the form of approximately 80 those which can be referred individually On-line magazines (not print magazines) offered for the sales. These carried names how LS magazines, LS country, LS Iceland, LS star, LS-Dreams, LS Barbie, LS-Flash, LS-Girls and LS-Fantasy.

Produced pictorial material

First the pictures were held still in natural floats and as Act photo to designate. The pictures and floats became later more and more sexual nature („generous act “). There was however never sexual document such as sexual intercourse, other sexual actions such as penetrations, pictures with boys and girls together, or pictures as well as adults. With the locking of the agency the floats (with the more generous picture series) were limited to suggested sexual actions like those Oral traffic imitating use of bananas. Generally the produced picture and video material can be called „soft core “- child pornography.

Which differentiated the LS-Studio from others its kind apart from the size, was the professionalism. The pictures had a very high quality, costumes for the model scenes, which had often topic tables contents, specially were often made.

The enterprise and its smashing

The enterprise advertised and recruited as Modellstudio in the Ukrainian media, including newspapers and on the television. The photographers looked for each other their models particularly in the cities Kiew, Charkow and Simferopol, where the enterprise branches maintained. The organization, which was led by a center-twenty-year-old Ukrainer, gained several hundredthousand euro in the three years. Some sources speak of a profit of 100,000 dollar per month. After several months of the determinations by that FBI and the Ukrainian police could be dug the organization in August 2004. Their boss was arrested, the police seized video equipment, computer, pictorial material, financial documents and the Porsche of the firm leader. The investigations of the case became according to a message that Prawda up to 6. April 2005 finally. Over the further procedure the Ukrainian law is silent itself out.

Between 10 and 40 dollar per model hour were paid to parents of the recent models. After information or assumed most parents, which took place with the photo sessions, knew Ukrainian ministry of the Interior, although they were not cleared up by the photographers over it. However no parents refunded for each to announcement.

Web on the left of

• Report on smashing the ring (English) crime-research.org July 29 2004
• Report on smashing the ring (English)
• Report on smashing the ring (English) (Prawda)
• Report on smashing the ring (English) (Reuters)