An employee surnamed Xu of a chain ramen shop near Zhongyou Department Store in North District, Taichung, started in May last year. He not only installed pinholes in the trash cans of the restrooms of the ramen shop to secretly film female customers while they were using the toilet, but also secretly filmed upskirts of women while they were walking up the stairs. He even secretly filmed his girlfriend performing oral sex on him. After investigation by the Taichung District Prosecutor's Office, he was charged with the crime of recording sexual images without consent. After being transferred to the Taichung District Court, he was ordered to renew his detention and called on female customers who ate and used the toilet at ramen restaurants in March and May this year to contact the police.
The CCDI alleged that a man surnamed Xu (25 years old) was an employee of a chain ramen shop in the business district near Zhongyou Department Store in North District, Taichung City. Starting in May 2024, he took the opportunity to clean the toilet on the third floor of the ramen shop. He used lighters, screwdrivers and other tools to drill holes in the toilet trash cans and set up pinhole video cameras. He also downloaded software to control the camera on his mobile phone to secretly film customers using the toilet. Even his ex-girlfriend was secretly filmed.
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The prosecutor also found that when Xu Nan found that a female customer at the ramen shop needed to go to the toilet, he followed the female customer to the stairway from the first floor to the second floor of the noodle shop, placed the camera at the bottom of the stairs, with the lens facing upward, and took pictures of the female customer's skirt.
When the police later checked Xu Nan's secretly recorded images on his mobile phone, they found that in early October 2024, when Xu Nan and his girlfriend were having sex at a rental house in North District, Xu Nan also used his mobile phone or pinhole camera to secretly record sexual images of his girlfriend performing oral sex on him without his girlfriend's consent. His girlfriend filed a complaint after learning about it.
The prosecutor's investigation found that in October 2025, when his girlfriend checked Xu Nan's mobile phone for conversations or photos with other women, she accidentally discovered that there were a large number of secretly photographed images of unspecified women in the stairwell and wiping their private parts in the toilet. On March 11 this year, she took screenshots and asked Xu Nan to delete them.
After Xu Nan was transferred to the District Prosecutor's Office for investigation, the court ordered him to be detained and a public prosecution was launched. After the transfer, the Central District Court also ruled to take him into custody. The police also asked the store owner to clean up the toilet area.
The prosecutors appealed that some of the victims have been identified and prosecutors have prosecuted them. However, there are other female victims who were secretly photographed while dining and their identities are unknown. If you have eaten at a chain ramen restaurant near Zhongyou Department Store on Sanmin Road, North District, on March 11, May 26, 29, and 31 this year, please contact the Second Branch (Tel: 04-22351001), and the prosecutors will investigate and protect their rights and interests according to law.
