In 2011, police carried out a search warrant in Toronto’s west end. Azov was shut down and its owner, 42-year-old Brian Way, was arrested. More than 45 terabytes of data were seized. “This is equivalent to a stack of paper as tall as 1,500 CN Towers,” Beaven-Desjardins said. Way was charged with multiple counts related to child pornography, including selling and distributing child pornography and instructing commission of offence for criminal organization.Īccording to police, the company had been operating since 2005 and had revenues in excess of $4 million. For approximately $40, customers could buy about an hour of video, and receive photos at a discount, delivered online or by mail, police say.Īfter Way's arrest, Toronto authorities then spent months re-creating a customer database along with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.That information was shared with Interpol, leading to arrests of customers around the world.īeaven-Desjardins said some of the children exploited in the films were as young as five. She said Azov commissioned videographers around the world to take pictures and images that the company would subsequently distribute through the mail and online. She said many of the victims were from Ukraine and Romania. Lisa Belanger of the Toronto police child exploitation section said many of the pictures and videos were shot in people's apartments, backyards and 'dingy saunas.' “(It was) very clearly child pornography, clearly children being sexually abused and/or exploited,” she said.ĭet. “Sometimes they set up in backyards,” she said.īeaven-Desjardin said that 24 Canadian children were rescued as a result of Project Spade. She said the children were not necessarily involved in the production of Azov material, and their exploitation was discovered when police were investigating people who bought material from the company. Police said at the home of a retired teacher, they found 350,000 pictures and more than 9,000 video showing child sexual abuse.

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