Civil servant peeper caught in Khon Kaen restroom

Suspect admits to selling films to online organizations.

A plainclothes police officer checks a laptop computer seized from a Tambon Administrative Organisation director, after the latter was arrested for filming two police officers in a restroom in Khon Kaen on Saturday. (Photo: Chakrapan Natanri)
A plainclothes police officer inspects a notebook computer that was taken from the Tambon Administrative Organization producer after the latter was detained for allegedly filming two police officers in a Khon Kaen bathrooms on Saturday. ( Photo: Chakrapan Natanri )

A local Udon Thani official has been detained after being caught quietly filming two policemen in a Khon Kaen room with the intention of releasing video clips to online communities.

According to nearby media reports, police were alerted on Saturday about a man acting strangely in a petrol station room in the Nam Phong city of Khon Kaen.

The suspect was found filming room customers, including two officers inspectors, with his cellular phone.

The two soldiers approached the man as they began to question him. They discovered a large number of movies and images of people using facilities on his cellular phone.

A TAO notebook computer, a black bag, and a laptop with a list of members were discovered in his car in addition to other evidence.

The suspect, identified only as Ae, is a producer of a Tambon Administration Organisation in Udon Thani, said Pol Col Chumphon Buachum, the Superintendent of the Nam Phong officers place.

Further research revealed that Mr. Ae had been inviting people to join underground online communities like Line and Telegram for a 250-baht cost while sharing the movies on X.

The suspect admitted to secretly filming individuals urinating and publishing the movies online for profit for more than a year, according to Pol Col Chumphon.

The suspect first faces charges of creating and disseminating sexually explicit material for profit by inputting obscene articles into a computer program.