A 60-year-old man from Rhodes yesterday became the third person in Greece in a week to be charged with possession of child pornography after the police conducted a raid on his house based on information they received from Interpol.

Electronic crime squad officers traveled to the island from Athens and, with the help of local law enforcement, visited the suspect's property, where they seized some 5,000 DVDs containing indecent images of children.

Sources said that Interpol had informed the police about people from Greece who were downloading child porn from a specific website hosted in another country.

Earlier in the week a 46-year-old lawyer and a 26-year-old employee of a private company were arrested in Kilkis, northern Greece, following another Interpol tip-off. The two men were released on bail yesterday.