The Defence Force has confirmed an ex-senior officer is facing charges for allegedly attempting to make an intimate visual recording when he worked at New Zealand's embassy in Washington DC.
Commodore Alfred Keating is accused of hiding a camera in the building's unisex toilets in late July last year, which was later discovered by staff, NZME reports.
He was New Zealand's most senior ranked member of the Defence Force in the United States and the head of defence staff and the defence and naval attache to the US at the time.
Keating lost name suppression in the Auckland District Court on Friday morning. A lawyer entered a not guilty plea on the 58-year-old's behalf.
The Defence Force told Newshub Keating's "engagement with the NZDF ended as scheduled on 31 March".
"He is no longer a member of the NZDF."
Keating had spent more than 40 years in the military.
The Minister for Defence declined Newshub's request for comment.
Alfred Keating is not related to New Zealand's outgoing Chief of Defence Lieutenant General Tim Keating, NZME reports.
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