Police officers at a checkpoint in Bangkok’s Huay Kwang district admitted to extorting 27,000 baht (RM3,485) from a Taiwanese actress in exchange for letting her off after allegedly finding a vaping device on her.
A Royal Thai Police (RTP) source said policemen manning a temporary checkpoint in front of the Chinese embassy in the early hours of Jan 5 admitted to extorting the money while being interrogated separately on Sunday.
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