5,000 porn films found in Sharjah home

Sharjah:

Police have arrested an Asian expatriate men suspected of distributing porn CD, The man was caught with 5,000 banned sex movies in his Sharjah residence.

The Bangladeshi man was caught by Criminal Investigations Department officials following a tip off they were selling porn CDs in Industrial area No.6.

The sexually explicit stash is much larger than usually found by law enforcement agents, according to a police spokesman.

Following the tip, the police formed a team to track down the suspect.

Police investigations revealed the suspect was selling the CDs in areas where “bachelors” live as well as in some residential areas.

Police found 5,000 ready-to-sell porn titles at the suspect’s home at the time of their arrest. They also recovered a number of high-tech movie-copying devices.

“This is an illegal act and the law will punish anyone caught practising it, as it also relates to copyright infringement,” a police official said.

He added that Sharjah Police deals with two or three porn peddling cases a month.

Door-to-door peddlers, often women, are usually found doing their rounds in residential buildings.

Sharjah Police is keen on protecting the youth from becoming targets of porn peddlers, an official said.

He urged the public to report such illegal activities on dedicated numbers 800151 or 06-5632222, or through texting 7999