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SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA: The state government will investigate claims that some budget hotels in the state have installed hidden cameras in rooms to capture sexual acts of unsuspecting couples.
The images are then said to be burnt onto video compact discs and sold.
State Tourism, Environment and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman Elizabeth Wong said she would be holding meetings with the Association of Budget Hotels soon to determine if the allegations were true.
"Such activities can adversely affect tourism and cannot be condoned."
As a matter of policy, closed-circuit television cameras should only be installed at the entrance of hotels and hallways, but never in rooms, Wong said after the weekly state executive council meeting.
The matter came to light yesterday in a Harian Metro front-page report which claimed some budget hotels in several states had hidden cameras installed in rooms for the purpose of recording the sexual activities of guests.
The report stated that the recordings were then sold to DVD and VCD pirates for between RM1,000 and RM3,000.
On another matter, state Local Government and Research Committee chairman Ronnie Liu said a show-cause letter had been issued to a newly-appointed local councillor in Klang who allegedly stopped enforcement officers from demolishing a tea stall purportedly belonging to his daughter. -NST
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