Sweden charges man for coercing wife into providing sexual services to over 100 men

Published on 30/03/2026 - 15:55 GMT+2

A Swedish authoritative charged a antheral connected Monday with aggravated pimping, battle and aggregate rapes aft helium allegedly sold his wife's intersexual services to implicit 120 men.

The 62-year-old antheral was arrested successful precocious October aft his woman reported him to constabulary successful bluish Sweden, and helium has been held successful custody since then.

According to the complaint sheet, the antheral had for years benefitted financially from pressuring his woman "to execute and taxable to intersexual acts".

The antheral was accused of creating ads online, mounting up meetings, keeping defender and pressuring the pistillate to execute intersexual acts online successful bid to pull much clients.

He was besides accused of being convulsive and threatening her, exploiting her fearfulness of him and taking vantage of her cause addiction successful what the authoritative said was "ruthless exploitation".

The charges besides elaborate respective threats made to the plaintiff, with immoderate of them including warnings astir unleashing "the monster".

Prosecutor Ida Annerstedt said successful February that authorities had identified immoderate 120 individuals suspected of having bought intersexual services.

The incidents were alleged to person occurred betwixt August 2022 and October 2025.

In summation to being charged with aggravated pimping, the man, who denies the accusations, was besides charged with 8 rapes.

They see 1 incidental with a lawsuit and respective incidents wherever she was made to execute intersexual acts connected herself.

He was besides charged with 4 attempted rapes and 4 assaults.

Silvia Ingolfsdottir, a lawyer representing the woman, told the AFP quality bureau the charges resulted from the "serious and aggravated crimes" her lawsuit had been a unfortunate of.

"She present hopes to get justice," Ingolfsdottir said successful a substance message.

According to nationalist broadcaster SVT, the antheral had antecedently been a high-ranking subordinate of biker radical Hells Angels.

The broadcaster besides said the proceedings had been preliminarily scheduled to commencement connected 13 April.

Parallels with Pelicot

The lawsuit is apt to beryllium compared to that of Gisèle Pelicot, the 73-year-old French pistillate lauded arsenic a feminist icon for waiving her close to anonymity successful a aggregate rape case.

Between 2011 and 2020, Pelicot was drugged and raped by her hubby Dominique and dozens of different men portion she was unconscious.

She became alert of the maltreatment successful 2020, aft her hubby was arrested for upskirting women successful a supermarket, and a consequent constabulary hunt of his machine showed images of her being raped.

Her lawsuit transfixed France and attracted important planetary media attention.

Pelicot has since go a awesome of the combat against intersexual violence, and the shocking lawsuit spurred a nationalist reckoning implicit rape civilization successful France.

In July past year, she was fixed France's highest award, being named a knight of the Legion of Honour up of France's Bastille Day.

Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years successful prison, portion sentences for the different defendants ranged from 3 to 15 years imprisonment.