It may be illegal to possess lewd pictures
Six more people have been arrested and computers and hard disks containing hundreds of pictures seized, as police widen their investigation into the online distribution of nude photos of local celebrities.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Wong Fook-chuen said last night that four men and two women, aged 23 to 30, had been arrested in the past two days for possessing nude photos for distribution purposes.
Five were arrested in Aberdeen and another man was held in Central. All are Hong Kong residents.
Hundreds of pictures, including some never circulated on the internet but related to the photos previously uploaded, were found in computers and hard disks seized from the man in Central.
'Even if these [people] are not the principal sources, we believe they are very close to them,' Mr Wong said.