Doesn't matter. No better way to destroy a man than to link his name to a child porn accusation. Regardless of where the investigation goes, he'll never get his reputation back.
Well it does sound like the possible set up to a honey trap for Rooskies. This is not big porn, this is not even the typical stash of a pedo. The whole silly thing could have been staged, for all we might know.
Spy vs. spy vs. spy.
I mean... he screams in the media about getting “caught” — while at the same time the agents of the Crown write all his friends and family and advise them to sit tight, this is a counterintelligence action.
The Rooskies see the media account and get bolder. They will now try to push 1000 kiddie porn pictures onto his machine, which has been specially equipped with honey trap software to “accept it” while reporting to a Crown agency on the connections in detail.
Eventually there is a bust — not of him, but the Rooskie operation — and it is publicized.