TV journalist Ilze Nagla giving an interview to "De Facto" Wednesday about the police confiscation of her computer.

RIGA — Police have raided the home and seized the computer of the journalist who was first to report the exploits of the cyber-whistleblower by the moniker “Neo,” raising the stakes in their battle against the Latvian hero.

Reports on Wednesday said that police searched the home of LTV journalist Ilze Nagla, whose work on the “De Facto” program helped break the story of Neo, allegedly a Latvian hacker who illegally downloaded from the State Revenue Service’s website thousands of

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