MELBOURNE, Aug. 23 -- A Singapore-born trainee surgeon has been released on bail in Australia after being accused of secretly filming hundreds of his colleagues in hospital restrooms.

Ryan Cho, 28, faces as many as 500 charges over some 4,500 intimate videos allegedly recorded at three Melbourne hospitals since 2021, Singapore media reported today.

Citing court documents, CNA and The Straits Times both reported that the junior doctor secretly filmed at least 460 women, though the judge noted there was no claim that any of the recordings were distributed.

Cho was arrested in July after a phone was discovered recording from a bag in an Austin Hospital restroom, with police alleging he also filmed in the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and ...