STOCKHOLM: A person in northern Sweden is suspected of serving to greater than 100 males purchase intercourse along with his spouse, a prosecutor instructed AFP on Monday (Feb 16).
Sweden’s regulation on prostitution bans the shopping for of intercourse however not the promoting.
The person, who’s in his 60s, was arrested in late October after his spouse reported him to police and has been remanded in custody since then, prosecutor Ida Annerstedt instructed AFP.
“He’s suspected of getting facilitated, or profited financially from, the sale of the complainant’s sexual companies,” Annerstedt stated.
Annerstedt stated the person had been remanded in custody, suspected of the crime of “procuring”.
She stated police had been trying into different suspected crimes however declined to offer any particulars, citing the confidentiality of the continued investigation.
She additionally declined to say whether or not the lady, who’s in her 50s, had been compelled to promote intercourse or not.
The suspected crimes had been believed to have occurred from January 2022 till the person’s arrest final 12 months.
Annerstedt stated she anticipated to press costs on Mar 13.
The prosecutor stated 120 people who had been suspected of getting purchased sexual companies had been recognized, but it surely was unlikely that each one of them may very well be investigated as a part of the primary probe.
Separate investigations into the consumers may very well be launched after the case concluded.
Public broadcaster SVT reported that the person, who has denied the alleged crime, had beforehand been convicted of a number of offences, together with assault and illegal coercion.
