Thread: Australian Police Tip Leads To Arrest of Major Child Porn Producer in Pathum Thani

A man was arrested yesterday for running a modelling agency that police say was a front for a major producer and distributor of child pornographic content.


The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) led the raid on the office of “Nene Modelling” agency, located in Prueksa housing estate in Pathum Thani’s Klong Luang district, where they arrested Danudetch Saengkaew, alias Nene.


The raid was directed by DSI director-general, Korrawat Panprapakorn, and the director of DSI’s Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Transnational Crime, Jatupol Bongkochmas.


It was supervised by the Australian embassy in Bangkok.


Pol Col Panprapakorn said the raid was carried out a year after the Australian Federal Police alerted authorities that a Thai national was running a major pornography business in Bangkok. “The DSI only had a single photo of a minor to work with at the start of the probe,” he said.


BFATC liaised with Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) – a non-profit organisation that works with law enforcement agencies to rescue human trafficking victims, particularly children – to analyse the picture.


They eventually traced it back to a man identified as Thakorn Attapthomchai, alias Mee, who was believed to be involved with Danudetch’s pornographic enterprise.


Mr Attapthomchai was arrested on 21st May last year, and the information gathered from him since his arrest ultimately led to the modelling agency raid yesterday.


Nene Modelling was one of the best-known child modelling agencies in Thailand. When authorities raided the agency’s office, they discovered over half a million child pornographic images stored on its computer hard drives.


“The amount of evidence convinced investigators the agency must have been behind the abuse of thousands of children,” Pol Col Panprapakorn said.


The operation yesterday was the biggest of its type, involving cooperation from in and outside of the country, according to the DSI chief.


The DSI has charged Danudetch with importing pornographic images into a computer system and sexually abusing minors, among others.


Australian Police Tip Leads To Arrest of Major Child Porn Producer in Pathum Thani | Chiang Mai One

Holy damn, good going poh poh

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Holy damn, slow going poh poh

Why one year between tip and raid?

And one hopes they have the contact details of all the parents that willingly lent their kids out for this shit.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Why one year between tip and raid?

Vacations.