Celebrity caught mongering
A local Swedish celebrity caught by the police. Google translate from Swedish newspaper:
Big sex razzia in Stockholm. Paolo Roberto arrested by police.
The TV star was arrested on Östermalm. The police had a spot on the scene in an effort they call "Operation Cod".
Simon Häggström, scout at the National Operations Department, NOA, says that several men have been arrested.
TV star and entrepreneur Paolo Roberto was arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of sex crimes.
Police struck when he left an apartment known for sex trafficking in central Stockholm.
He is one of several men who were prosecuted in connection with a targeted effort. Which was named "Stake Cod".
"I cannot comment on any interventions in detail that we have done during the night," says Detective Inspector Simon Häggström, Detective at NOA.
The raid against the suspected sex buyers has been going on in central Stockholm during the week and ended the night until Friday.
It was carried out by the Norrmalm police in Stockholm and the human trafficking group at the police's national operational department, NOA.
Police confirm today that a total of eleven people were prosecuted in connection with the operation on Thursday, one of which was arrested. All of these admit to buying sex.
A similar effort was carried out in February, when 41 men were arrested, suspected of sex purchases, during raids on three different apartment brothels at Södermalm in Stockholm.
Police had scouts at several locations around the property on Grevgatan in central Stockholm when he arrived on Thursday evening. When he then left the apartment at 19, he was arrested for sex purchases. A hearing was held in place and then he was set free.
The woman whom Paolo Roberto is suspected of having bought six comes from "one of Europe's poorest countries".
At one of his companies, the staff received information during the morning that something had happened to the entrepreneur during the night, but he had not contacted the staff himself.
"I haven't been able to talk to him," says a company official.
The strike against the TV star was the result of a police operation that took place in Stockholm during the past week.
The goal has been to expose sex buyers who visited addresses where prostitutes are suspected of having sold sex, and to find women who sell sex in order to convey help to them.
A neighbor tells us that a civilian police came earlier this week and asked about the gate code to the stairwell where the sex trade should have taken place.
"Yesterday's work is done because we know that there is extensive sex trafficking in Norrmalm," says Mats Eriksson, press officer at the Stockholm Police.
- Yesterday we worked at a number of addresses and this is part of the ongoing work we have on the sex trade.
He says that eleven people were prosecuted, one of whom was arrested. The other ten acknowledged the place.
- They are convicted of buying sexual services. The penalty for that crime is a fine or imprisonment for a maximum of one year, says Mats Eriksson.
Police: "No matter who you are".
In a post on Instagram, Simon Häggström writes that the effort was so demanding that "many of us didn't even have time to get some food in us during the whole pass. ".
He writes: "We have struggled hard and arrested most men for buying sex. Here's the day after, some thoughts are spinning in my head.
"No matter who you are or where you come from. If you get the right to buy access to another person's body, our goal will always be to grab you. ".
Simon Häggström at NOA's human trafficking group does not want to make any more comments with reference to the preliminary investigation.
After Expressen's disclosures about Paolo Roberto, Aftonbladet also reported that he added to the information that he must have paid SEK 1500, a task which is confirmed by our sources. ".
The whole week media has condemned hit behaviour and he will probably loose all his business credibility. The government has recently said that it want to raise the penalty for mongering to be at least prisonment instead of a monetary punishment as it is today.
Take care when mongering in Sweden!