Swedish national Kjell Christer Johansson, 61, is detained at the Talisay City Jail after his arrest for alleged exploitation of minors in his rented apartment in barangay Dumlog Talisay City. (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO)
A 60-year-old Swedish tourist was arrested yesterday after he was allegedly caught with two minor girls inside his house in barangay Dumlog in Talisay City.
Kjell Christer Johansson was detained at the Talisay City Police Office pending the filing of charges for violation of Republic Act 10364 or the Expanded Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012 before the prosecutor’s office.
The two girls – aged 14 and 15 – were turned over to the custody of the regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7).
Johansson, who had been in and out of the country since 2007, denied the police’s allegation that he was planning to take naked photos of young girls inside his residence.
“I have never done that,” he said.
Johansson was placed under surveillance for more than a month after the police received a tip that young girls had been frequenting his house.
The police later learned that he would allegedly make the girls put on make-up, strip naked and pose before the camera.
Senior Insp. Michael Virtudazo, head of the police Anti-Cybercrime Group in Cebu, said they are still determining if the pictures were for Johansson’s personal use or would be sold online.
He said they were able to secure a search warrant from Judge Macaundas Hadjirasul of the Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 8.
Elements from the police Anti-Cybercrime Group in Cebu, Talisay City police, Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) and the Regional Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force of Police Regional Office in Central Visayas raided the house of Johansson about 12:45 p.m.
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Found inside the house were the two girls who were fully made-up. They later told the police that the foreigner asked them to pose nude for a pictorial session.
Also found inside the house were an Asus laptop computer, a Toshiba laptop computer, a Seagate external hard drive, a Western digital hard drive, an external enclosure, a Smart broadband, and a Samsung brand mobile phone.
Several boxes of Chinese-made performance enhancing capsules for men were also taken from Johansson’s possession. There were also bottles of beer scattered in the living room.