Pathum Thani man arrested selling child pornography via LINE

A 27 year-old man nicknamed Kij was arrested in the Bangkok suburb province of Pathum Thani, accused of selling child pornography online. The suspect was arrested yesterday and is being charged with profiting from the sale and distribution of child pornography.

Police raided the man’s home in the Beung Kham Phroy sub-district of Lam Lukka district outside of Bangkok yesterday. They seized electrical equipment used in gathering and reselling the child pornography as evidence of his crimes. He is said to have earned about 100,000 baht over the last year via a secret group on the LINE app.

He had used VK, the popular Russian alternative to Facebook, to find customers and then lured them in with a promise of “enough content for all-day viewing”, cheap prices, and daily updates. And he did attract customers by charging only 100 to 150 baht for membership that would allow access to…