A CEO of a healthcare company in Stockholm is facing charges for allegedly hiring a prostitute. The incident occurred in March when police discovered a woman offering sexual services online. The CEO claims he was seeking a massage, not sexual services.
CEO Charged for Allegedly Hiring Prostitute
CEO Charged for Allegedly Hiring Prostitute
In the middle of the night, a company CEO is suspected of having taken home a woman from a sex site. He is now charged with purchasing sexual services. He claims he only wanted a massage.
In March this year, surveillance police discovered a woman offering sex for payment in a hotel room in Södermalm, Stockholm. Her profile was on a sex site, describing her appearance and the services she sold.
After speaking with the woman, police suspected that a man in his 40s, who is the CEO of a healthcare company, had purchased a sexual service from her.
Allegedly Paid 3,000 SEK for Sex
The man has now been charged.
In the police investigation, it emerged that the woman could identify the CEO from a passport photo. According to her, he booked a taxi for her to his home address, where he purchased an hour of sex for 3,000 SEK. He then also ordered a taxi for her departure, the woman states.
The man denies the crime.
In police interviews, he says he ended up on a profile selling sex while searching for a massage.
The Man: Wanted Oil Massage
"What I did was look for someone offering massage or something that wasn't a sexual service but was some type of oil massage or something like that," the CEO explains.
He says the woman suddenly appeared outside his address, and he then felt the situation was "unpleasant in some way" and regretted it.
"Because the boundaries for what services she offered were so blurred. And why and what she was prepared for."
The man claims he wanted to back out "without being rude" to the woman, so she wouldn't feel she had wasted her time, and says he brought her into the residence and paid her anyway.
However, he insists they never had sex.
"Felt Fake"
When police confronted the man with a text conversation where he asked explicit sexual questions to the woman, he replied that he was trying to "investigate if it was a real profile" and not someone scamming.
"I can say, when I... All the way until she was outside, the whole thing felt fake in some way," the CEO says in the interview.
And:
"For me, it was mostly a game at first, because I didn't know if it was a real person selling these services or, as is surely the case in half of the instances, fake profiles."