PUBLISHED: 24 Apr 2025 at 19: 41
Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD ) has defended its role in the ongoing investigation into a 2023 exam paper leak at Chulalongkorn University, which is alleged to have involved a former high-ranking police officer who was enrolled in a special undergraduate law program at the time.
The investigation was being conducted without any ill goal against the unknown past police general, according to Pol Maj Gen Siriwat Dipho, the director of the TCSD, on Wednesday. It was started after investigators found possible connections to the test leak in a phone taken from a suspect in an online gambling case.
He said that any person who is the subject of the investigation may be punished without exception.
The telephone was taken as part of a larger investigation into a significant online gaming ring, according to Pol Maj Gen Siriwat. Data from the test paper leak was included in the document, including a picture of Kanittha Lertbanjerdwong, 53, who was detained on Wednesday. Investigators also discovered chat logs that reportedly contained information on how the former police general allegedly stole the exam paper, sent it to another person to finish, and then returned the finished exam to him for him to duplicate.
Ms. Kanittha apparently had close ties to an interview monitor despite not being employed by the class.
She allegedly accessed the examination papers while the invigilator was distracted using that link to take it.
According to Section 188 of the Criminal Code, Ms. Kanittha has been accused of fraudulently removing, destroying, or concealing a significant file. She could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison and/or a fine of up to ten thousand ringgit.
More data was likewise discovered on servers that were seized in 2023 from a business connected to the online gaming community, according to Pol Maj Gen Siriwat. He, nevertheless, made no mention of the original police chief.
More than 400, 000 baht were transferred through animal accounts across five transactions, and another 500, 000 ringgit were received from accounts linked to improper online gaming operations, according to Ms. Kanittha, who reportedly received more than 900, 000 baht for her involvement in the exam leak.
Two men, who were the assistants to the former police general and the owners of the seized computers, turned themselves in following her arrest.