He installed a secret mini-chamber in the bathroom of the New Zealand Embassy and two employees discovered it.

Alfred Keating, the former military officer of the New Zealand Embbady in Washington, was found guilty on Thursday place a secret mini-camera in a bathroom of the diplomatic delegation where he worked.

The 12-member jury of Auckland's New Zealand North Island court said in their verdict that Keating, 59, was the person who set the camera found by causality by Embbady staff in July 2017.

The court will render its decision on June 25. it could mean a prison sentence, the newspaper reported New Zealand Herald.

During the two-week trial, Justice Robert Ronayre established special measures for the jury "reasons of national security" to prevent them from making copies of the evidence at the trial that was held in New Zealand and not in the United States, because the military exile had diplomatic immunity.

Two employees of the Embbady they found the minicamera adhered to a heating duct and the police found 20 videos in memory, as well as the trace of 700 others that have been erased, and remains of DNA that correspond to those of the convict.

Keating's defense, which maintains his innocence, qualifies police work as "inept and incomplete" and claimed that the DNA samples were contaminated.

The military exile, which resigned last March after 40 years of service, was the highest military post in New Zealand in the United States.