A high-ranking DSI official has been accused of raping and blackmailing a 38-year-old businesswoman.
Thai media reported the woman, who owns a property business, filed a complaint with the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) against the C-9 special-case expert at the Department of Special Investigation on Thursday.
According to her relative who accompanied her to the CSD, the official had sent the woman a Facebook friend request in 2017. She accepted it, seeing that he was a close friend of one of her relatives.
When she posted on Facebook asking friends to join her on a merit-making trip to a temple in Rayong, he asked to join her.
He brought her a large portrait of King Rama V as a gift and offered to take it to her condominium unit in the area.
Once in the condo, she claimed he raped her, saying he had a gun, while taking a video clip.
Days later, he called to ask her to have sex with him again and demanded cash, saying if she refused he would post the clip on social media.
She also claimed he had his wife sue her for having sex with her husband, demanding damages of 2 million baht.
She fled abroad but he kept sending her mail and messages mocking her about the clip, the relative said.
Exasperated, she filed a complaint with the DSI.
The relative said a panel was set up to investigate it but found him guilty of a misdemeanour and the punishment was a 1,000-baht salary cut
“I find the penalty unfair to my niece so we filed a rape charge with the Pattaya court,” he said.
But DSI chief Pol Col Paisit Wongmuang said on Thursday he received the complaint but since the official was a C-9 official, by regulation the DSI could not probe it and had to send the case to the Justice Ministry, which has already set up a panel to look into the case.
