Overview
- Argentine and Panamanian authorities detained a suspect in Panama under Operación Internacional Córdoba after an NCMEC alert linked him to extorting minors in Córdoba, San Luis and La Rioja.
- Investigators say the Panama-based actor contacted children on Instagram, shifted to WhatsApp, solicited sexual images for money and then threatened to leak the material or harm relatives.
- The Panama operation seized numerous digital devices for forensic review as prosecutors work to map the full scope of the scheme and determine whether more victims were targeted.
- In a separate Buenos Aires case, police arrested a man in San Nicolás who had contacted girls via TikTok; his phone held child sexual abuse material and chats with the mother of an eight-year-old.
- The child was located and safeguarded on February 22, and the mother was later detained in González Catán, where six phones and records of money transfers tied to image exchanges were seized.