A 73-year-old man’s man was interrogated by the police because he would have made a deep fake video of a famous Dutchman. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) confirms this on Wednesday after previous reporting from the Ad. It is a video of the ‘Mrdeepfakes’ website, which would have been Nepporno images of dozens of well-known Dutch people, including Caroline van der Plas and Helène Hendriks.
The website is now out of the air. Justice is awaiting the investigation file on the suspect, as soon as that is inside, a decision on possible prosecution follows. The OM reports when asked NRC Nothing yet about the period on which they receive the file. A judiciary spokesperson can share that the suspect was not arrested. The man has since been interrogated and the police have searched his house.
Visitors were able to find ‘deepfake’ porn movies on MRDEEPFAKES. With the help of AI processed videos that can not be distinguished from real for the untrained viewer. On the site were videos in which faces of pornstars were replaced by those of dozens of well -known Dutch people, politicians and members of the Royal House.
Visual material from, among others, BBB-Voorvrouw van der Plas, television personality Olcay Gulsen and former police officer Ellie Lust were used for this. Together with dozens of other women, they reported it after the unveiling of it Adthat previously published stories about the case.
International platform
The OM started an investigation into the international platform, which attracted millions of visitors worldwide every month. Users of MRDEEPFAKES could upload videos themselves under a pseudonym. Out American research It turned out in 2024 that around 95 percent of the videos concerned Deepfakes of female celebrities. Pressure from the OM ensured that the site has not been available in the Netherlands since March this year. In May the website completely stopped.
By Ad Worked the 73-year-old Dutchman who may now be prosecuted for a Canadian pharmacist from Toronto. In May this year, the Canadian Through CBC News In collaboration with research collective Bellingcat Also identified as the “master brain” behind the porn site.
It Ad Reports that outgoing government parties BBB and VVD and GroenLinks-PvdA want to submit a request to have the Canadian ‘master brain’ delivered. The question is whether that is possible, since making sexually tinted deep fakes in Canada is not (yet) punishable.
Violation of sexual privacy
In the Netherlands, a maker of a deepfake video was convicted for the first time in 2023. An Amersfoort man was sentenced to a conditional community service After he made fake and spread with the face of presenter Welmoed Sijtsma. She tracked the maker herself in her television series Welmoed and the Sexfakesso that he could be prosecuted by the OM for violating “sexual autonomy and sexual privacy.”