Monday, March 9, 2009

Swiss “gigolo” faces allegations

A Swiss citizen has been accused of blackmailing several women so that he could get millions of dollars from his victims. Mr Sgarbi, or as the media calls him the “Swiss Gigolo”, videotaped some of his customers without their knowledge and later used these tapes to blackmail them. As the customers are amongst the rich and famous in Switzerland he expected that he could get millions of dollars for the recorded materials in return. 

Unfortunately for him, one of the blackmailed women, Susanne Klatten reported him to the police. Mrs Klatten gave Mr Sgarbi 9 million dollars for his services, but when the latter told her that he needed another 18 millions or a secret videotape would go to public, the former decided to inform him to the police. 

Mrs Klatten is the heiress of BMW and also a mother of three children. According to BBC she does not normally appear in public, and if she has to testify against Mr Sgarbi in case he denies the allegations, she will do so. It seems the media attention is extremely big on the case which is regarded as “one of the most remarkable and sensational in German judicial history.” 

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