Bangla ‘Sultan of Sex’ arrested for blackmail

Male escort filmed videos of sexual encounters with women clients The accused, an escort, used to film intimate moments with women, mostly married, and later blackmail them. The police found 150 individual victims’ videos in his laptop

Dhaka, Aug. 3: The Bangladesh police have arrested a self-proclaimed “Sultan of Sex” accused of blackmailing dozens of women with intimate videos he filmed of their sexual encounters, an official said on Thursday.

The police raided Fuad bin Sultan’s home on Wednesday in the capital Dhaka where they seized a laptop, methamphetamine tablets and alleged pornographic videos.

Sultan, an alleged male escort, would meet clients online and bring them back to his apartment for sex, said a spokesman for Bangladesh’s elite police unit. “He filmed those intimate moments and later blackmailed those victims, mostly married

women, for money. We found nearly 150 individual victims’ videos in his laptop,” spokesman Ishtiaque Ahmed said.

Sultan, a real estate agent by trade, also conducted a “vulgar live streaming service wearing superhero masks on social media which attracted thousands of viewers”, including minors, said Mr Ahmed. “After we arrested him, Sultan admitted to having those extramarital relations and claimed himself as the Sultan of sexual intercourse,” Mr Ahmed said.

“He said the ladies came to him willingly, knowing everything.” Pornography is illegal in Bangladesh, a conservative Muslimmajority nation of 160 million. Sultan has been charged under tough antipornography laws that could land him in prison for 10 years if he found guilty. Bangladeshi authorities last year blocked nearly 600 pornographic websites in a major morality drive. More than a third of Bangladesh’s 160 million people have access to internet.