Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting | Las Vegas
An Israeli government has recently been arrested by the Cyber Security official who recently carried out a secret investigation of online users who want to hunt children sexually by Las Vegas police and other officials in Nevada.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 38 -year -old Tom Artiom Alexandrovich is accused of attracting a child with a computer for a sex action, as well as other suspects caught during a two -week stinging operation. A statement Published on Friday. He has been released for his detention since then and returned to Israel.
As first reported by the news site Mediaita public screenshot From Alexandrovich’s page on the LinkedIn professional network platform, he described him as the General Manager of Israeli Cypriot Directorate, the Israeli government agency, under the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The screenshot also showed an article that it was in Las Vegas at the beginning of August for the Black Hat briefings, the annual meeting of cyber security professionals under the name of Alexandrovich.
“Two things you can’t escape in Black Hat 2025: Relentless Productive Ice [artificial intelligence] And the voice of Hebrew… In every corridor, ”Alexandrovich wrote in a partially accompanying mission. Calling a abbreviation for large language models and referring to one of the largest cities of Israel continued:“ Key package? The future of cyber security is written with the code, and a significant portion of it seems to be written in #Telaviv and strengthened by LLMS. An exciting time to be on the field! “
This LinkedIn page under the name of Alexandrovich deleted.
Israel news output ynet reported On Wednesday, while representing the country’s country at a professional conference, he detained the Kuru A employee of the National Cyber Directorate of Israel for the questioning. This employee then returned to the hotel and returned to Israel two days later.
“The Israeli officials underestimated the incident, saying that he did not carry ‘political results’ and was quickly solved, Y Ynet said, without saying Alexandrovich or not to say that he had been arrested on charges of crime against him by Nevada law enforcement officers. “The reasons for the questioning remain uncertain, but may be about the employee’s behavior.”
Mediaite reported that Netanyahu’s office had made a statement that denies that the employee was arrested.
“A state employee traveling to the US for professional issues was questioned by American authorities during his stay,” he said. “The employee who did not have a diplomatic visa was not arrested and returned to Israel as planned.”
Nevada’s internet crime against children directed the operation that resulted in the arrest of Alexandrovich and seven other seven men in Henderson, near Las Vegas. Local, province and federal law enforcement officers participating in the operation Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement, eight suspects were arrested after the arrest of the arrest, he said.
Under Nevada lawA child can be sentenced to one to 10 years of imprisonment to attract a child for sex action.
