Phitsanulok man arrested for sex blackmail of 200 women
A man in Phitsanulok province has been arrested for allegedly luring some 200 women to videotape sex on their phones and later extorting them for money.
Pol Lt-General Surachate Hakparn, in his role leading Thailand’s Action Taskforce for Information Technology Crime Suppression (TACCTICS), held a media conference yesterday to announce the arrest of 35 year old Kittisak Nimboonchuen.
Surachate says police seized a notebook computer, a mobile phone and a notebook with Facebook user names and passwords of his victims. Surachate says police have frozen the man’s bank account that held over 2 million baht.
Surachate said Kittisak allegedly lured his victims to masturbate on camera via Facebook chats by offering them 5,000 baht.
But Kittisak recorded the clips and used the videos to extort money from the victims, or give him the user names and passwords of their Facebook accounts, which he later used to deceive other victims. Police found that he had clips of some 200 women, who were apparently his victims.
Surachate said Kittisak was arrested while allegedly using a computer of his neighbour to deceive a victim.
Police allege that Kittisak laundered the money through an online gambling account.
SOURCE: The Nation
