Police search for suspects of extorting victims and threatening to publish nudes in RS; demands reached R$50 thousand

The images would have been obtained after contacts on dating apps. The investigation began after the victim reported that she met a person who presented herself as a woman on the platform. The conversation would have continued on a messaging application, where intimate images were exchanged.

Subsequently, a man began to demand money so as not to disclose the material to the victim's family, friends and other contacts. The demands reached R$50,000 and were later reduced to R$10,000.

Intimidated, the victim made two transfers, of R$4,500 and R$5,500, destined for the accounts of two people under investigation. Even after payments, the threats and demands continued.

"I'll only warn you once, I've already called some people as a warning, you have the option to place me and I don't send the photos or it will be publicized and the calls will be sent throughout the city for 10 days", stated the suspect in one of the messages to which g1 had access.

Tracking operations and information provided by financial institutions made it possible to identify account holders and locate addresses linked to them in Rio Grande do Sul.

During the investigations, the police identified that one of those investigated was also the beneficiary of a transfer of R$6,000 in another case of extortion, registered in Rio de Janeiro, a few weeks earlier.

In that episode, the victim had also shared intimate photographs after contact started on a dating app and began to suffer threats of exposure to people in her social circle.

The searches aim to locate cell phones, computers, documents and financial records that help identify the perpetrators of the threats, clarify the participation of each person being investigated and track the destination of the money.