A dad who combined caring for his sick wife with running a sex-for-sale empire was jailed for 29 months yesterday.
Emil Wakulicz, 32, recruited women from his native Poland to offer sexual services to paying customers in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Belfast and Newcastle.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard Wakulicz made an estimated £1.4million from the “highly organised” vice business between 2011 and 2015.
The business, Diamond Massage, had its own call centre to manage appointments. Employees were given contracts and Wakulicz’s accountant handled their taxes.
But Wakulicz’s lucrative empire was exposed when a solicitor who worked for him on a property purchase became suspicious and tipped off police.
An undercover police sting then provided the evidence against him.
Susan Duff, defending, told the court that her client had expressed remorse for his actions.
She said he originally thought he hadn’t broken the law.
And she asked the court not to jail him as he cared for his wife, who suffers from depression.
Duff added: “He is a decent family man who lives a normal family life.”
But Sheriff Nigel Ross said he had no alternative but to send Wakulicz to prison as he had exploited the women who had worked for him.
He added: “You ran an entirely illegal business. I have sympathy for your wife and children but the scale of your business means that only a custodial sentence is appropriate.”
Prosecutors have now launched a proceeds of crime action against Wakulicz, of Liberton, Edinburgh, who admitted living off the proceeds of prostitution.
The court heard he came to Scotland with wife Edyta and their two children in 2008 and set up his business using women from Poland.
Clients would ring in and the call centre operators would pretend to be the women who they were going to see.
The customer would then be sent a text message revealing the address of the woman providing the sexual service.
The women were told to answer the door “wearing a sexy dress and heels.” They were also told not to go to the door in lingerie or be half naked to avoid attracting the attention of any neighbours.
The court was told an undercover police officer called Danny called on one of Wakulicz’s employees and gathered enough evidence to bring a prosecution against him.
Ann McNeill, prosecuting, said: “The female confirmed that it was a ‘tantric massage’ he wanted and that they would be both naked and she would use her body to massage him.
“Danny enquired into extras and in particular sexual intercourse. The female stated that she would provide hand relief.
“She stated that sexual intercourse was not available at all.
“Danny then stated that he was married and feeling guilty and received a refund and left.”
McNeill added: “That the services offered were sexual is clearly set out in the contracts, scripts and training materials that the accused provided to the women he recruited.
“When he recruited them, he provided them with instructions as to what to wear, what to say and how to conduct themselves.”
