SINGAPORE — Japan authorities have asked the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo to help bring back a diplomat for questioning over suspicions that he took nude images of a teen at a public bath in Tokyo.
The 55-year-old former counsellor at the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo is suspected of using a mobile phone to film a 13-year-old student in the dressing room of a bathhouse, reported the Mainichi Shimbun.The report added that Tokyo police are investigating the case for potential violations of the law related to the production of child pornography and the taking of sexual images.
The diplomat then reportedly refused to go to the police station but told officers he had taken such photos in other public baths. He is said to have deleted about 700 such photos from his phone, which he told police he had taken in the six months leading up to the incident. The ministry said the allegations were made against one of its officers who was previously on post in the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo.
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