RELEASED: 6 Dec 2023 at 15:27
2 senior policemans who permitted a German guy dealing with kid sex charges in Pattaya to leave the nation will deal with disciplinary and potentially criminal action, a deputy nationwide authorities chief stated on Wednesday
Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn stated a station chief and an interrogator in Pattaya would be disciplined for stopping working to send out the suspect into migration authorities detention and to oppose his bail demand.
The child sex case includes German nationwide Jens Kirch, 55, and go back to September 2022.
The German was arraigned on charges of making love with a small he drew from a bar to his hotel space in Pattaya. He effectively looked for authorization to leave the nation in November in 2015 on a “company journey” and stopped working to return and attend his trial in Pattaya Court later on that month as bought.
Pol Gen Surachate stated the 2 officers might deal with criminal charges if the case showed to include bribery.
As a German documentary reported that the suspect remained in Germany, Pol Gen Surachate stated, he would talk about extradition with the German ambassador to Thailand. The 2 nations do not have an extradition arrangement, he stated.
The documentary, Sex Travelers in Thailand, was published on the Deutsche Welle Dcumentary YouTube Channel and has actually considering that been obstructed in Thailand. In it, the German suspect supposedly stated he paid about 700,000 baht for bail and legal costs and another one million baht in money to authorities before flying home to Frankfurt 7 days after being charged.
