Police in Italy have arrested 4 people and seized €1.2 million (£1m) after uncovering a prostitution ring which was utilized by over 70 footballers and a Formula 1 driver.
An event planning company in Milan is accused of being a front for an escort service in the town’s most trendy neighbourhoods and has been found with a protracted list of rich clients including celebrities and Serie A footballers.
Players from Italian top-flight clubs including Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus are said to have paid over €194,000 (£168,000) to the corporate via bank transfer, nevertheless, their names have been redacted from the warrant they usually are usually not under criminal investigation.
An unnamed F1 driver can be alleged to have used the agency, with Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport revealing a conversation from a wiretap between an associate of the driving force and the agency.
‘I even have a friend who’s a Formula 1 driver and he wants a paid girlfriend. Can we discover her?’ the person asked.
‘I’ll send him the Brazilian,’ was the reply.
One other wiretap conversation revealed that one woman told an individual working for the agency that she was pregnant three weeks after spending a night with a ‘well-known footballer’.
Further wiretap conversations between those working for the agency revealed that nitrous oxide, the recreational drug known as laughing gas, was requested by clients on the parties.
The owners of the events company, a person and a girl, and two of their employees, have been placed under house arrest. They’ve been charged with exploitation, aiding and abetting prostitution, and money laundering. Finance police have seized €1.2m (£1m).
In accordance with the prosecution, the suspects ‘had focused their business on recruiting women willing to take part in the events organised and able to also provide sexual services, subsequently remunerated, for a very wealthy clientele willing to spend large sums’.
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