Police probing sex charge bribe claim

Police will investigate a claim by a German national that he paid a one-million-baht bribe to authorities in exchange for his release from a paedophilia charge, Pol Lt Gen Somprasong Yentuam, commissioner of Provincial Police Region 2, said on Sunday.

The investigation comes after a recent news documentary, Sex Tourists in Thailand, posted on the Deutsche Welle (DW) Documentary YouTube Channel. Access to the documentary is now blocked in Thailand.

One part of the video discussed a case of paedophilia involving a German national, Jens Kirch, 55, back in September 2022.

According to a report by Khaosod newspaper, the foreigner was arrested after a raid against a nightclub in Pattaya called Cobra Beer…