New Delhi, July 3 -- LONDON - For years, many of the victims did not know they had been raped.

They woke disoriented, with gaps in their memories and, in some cases, unexplained injuries. Their partners, men some had trusted for decades, were the source of the abuse. What they could not have known was that those same men were members of international online communities, exchanging advice on which sedatives to administer, how to conceal them in drinks, and how to film and distribute what they had done.

Britain's National Crime Agency announced on Wednesday the arrest of eight people in the United Kingdom, the first tangible result of Project Medusa, a Europol-supported international investigation that has, since April 2026, identified 15...