Security guard arrested for allegedly stealing from museum
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A security guard at the Chainatmuni National Museum on Wednesday confessed to stealing many precious antiques from his workplace and implicated his former co-worker.
The suspect is one of 12 people working for the museum.
On Monday, Saneh Prakobthong, chief of the museum located here, alerted police that 61 antiques had gone missing from a locked storage room.
Police are going to arrest Amorn Klomkamnerd, the former security guard who emerged as a prime suspect but initially denied any wrongdoing during an earlier interrogation.
His former co-worker, however, has now implicated him.
Amorn, 30, resigned from the museum in February. His house has already been searched, and his computer was seized pending examination. His financial transactions will also be checked.
Police have found records showing that Amorn sent a parcel to Chiang Mai but the contents were unknown.
Saneh said she would request a budget to refurbish the museum.
“We will need a new closed-circuit television system and restricted-admission system for the storage room,” she said.
The current CCTV system malfunctioned in November. In February, it was fixed. However, it remains unclear whether it was working at the time of the thefts. The system was damaged and efforts are underway to salvage the old recordings for use as solid evidence against the perpetrators.
