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The girls were prostitutes, invited for a birthday sex party to Buda\u00f6rs, 10 kilometres from Budapest. The team had a sixth member, but she, breaking the second rule, arrived 10 minutes late. This is why, in the end, they turned into the street of the party house, close to the M1-highway, with 10 minutes of delay. The first car was the man\u2019s old blue Peugeot wagon, followed by the second car in which those girls were sitting who could not fit in the Peugeot.<\/p>\n
The group that ordered the women rented a place with swimming pools, beds and a spacious common room where, according to their plans, in 3-4 hours \u201ceverybody gets to fuck everyone\u201d. They invited the prostitutes through the man in his late fifties, who only had to make a couple of phone calls to arrange girls for the party. He did not stay at the house but drove away as soon as he received his share from the girls\u2019 payment. He got 120 thousand forints (450 euros at the current exchange rate) in total for the six girls.<\/p>\n
The participants of the party were already drunk, and when the girls arrived they told them to undress to lingerie as the \u201cparty is starting now.\u201d D\u00e9nes, a bald man whose birthday way celebrated, let the girls know the rules of the game: everybody receives 100\u00a0000 forints for the night (375 euros at the current exchange rate), and if someone is very adept (for example, is ready to have anal sex with him), will receive 50\u00a0000 forints (188 euros at the current exchange rate) as a premium. The girls first chatted with the man, had a couple of drinks and then went to separate rooms in pars or they had sex in front of each other. This swapping sex party went on for four hours.<\/p>\n
The man who drove the girls in his car to the party was Lajos R\u00e9p\u00e1s, who first became known as the organizer of various beauty contest but last year was charged in court with procuring prostitution. The 2500-page-long files of the investigation, obtained by Direkt36, offer an unusually deep insight into the world of high-class prostitution. The records of tapped phone calls, testimonies, and other reports made by the police reveal that, if someone has enough money, porn starts, models and contestants of beauty pageants can be bought for 60-80 thousand forints per hour (220-300 euros at the current exchange rate) \u2013 might it be about a couple of hours of conversations, dinners, partying or sex work either for a few hours or for the whole night. \u201cIf I want to feel in a porn movie, he knows a very decorative girl who is open to anything\u201d \u2013 said one client about R\u00e9p\u00e1s.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 case is already in court, and there were other similar cases made public before. The investigation files obtained by Direkt36 are special because they reveal many details not only about the sex encounters themselves, but they also show the dark human side of this seemingly fancy world.<\/p>\n
The records reveal many details about the participants of the party in Buda\u00f6rs as well. The files show that one of the girls has not even turned 18 at the time of the party. That morning, R\u00e9p\u00e1s was still explaining to her over the phone that during this kind of parties one should put a new condom on the men for every new intercourse \u2013 the girl calmed R\u00e9p\u00e1s down, saying that she had been already aware of this. This birthday orgy was her first sex work, and she received more than 100\u00a0000 forints (more than 375 euros at the current exchange rate). \u201cAt home I said that I got the money for a photo shooting\u201d \u2013 testified the girl, who was living with her unemployed mother and old grandmother. She told the police that she took the jobs because of the financial problems of her family.<\/p>\n
The girl also said that she only met R\u00e9p\u00e1s by accident. A few months before the Buda\u00f6rs party, she was walking on the Grand Boulevard of Budapest, on Szent Istv\u00e1n k\u00f6r\u00fat, when a man stopped her and told her that she was so beautiful that she should participate in beauty contests. This man knew Lajos R\u00e9p\u00e1s, organizer of Miss Hungary beauty pageant, and he gave R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 contact details to the girl.<\/p>\n
The now 63-year-old R\u00e9p\u00e1s, who walks with a limp due to a knee problem, had been working in the beauty industry since 1998. R\u00e9p\u00e1s, a very tall, confident-looking former basketball player organized other similar contests: the Miss Tini Hungary for girls aged between 14-18, the Miss Bikini for girls who have a very sporty body and the Supersexy Photomodell contest of those girls, of whom \u2013 according to R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 description \u2013 \u201cPlayboy kind of\u201d photos will be made. The contests are organized through his company Miss Model Agency Ltd, co-owned by him and his two daughters who also worked as models.<\/p>\n
However, according to their business data, organizing beauty contests was not a very lucrative business: the model agency made 5.2 million forints (16600 euros) of loss in 2009, and closed 2010 with a 10.6 million forints (339000 euros) of loss. According to the investigation files, in one case R\u00e9p\u00e1s did not pay the rent for the venue of his events, and he even went into a long e-mail correspondence with an event organizer company about what would be the best way for him to pay off his debts. For the Prosecutor\u2019s Office bringing charges against R\u00e9p\u00e1s, he prepared a hand-written note saying that the organization of the beauty contests are paid by sponsors and applications fees. However, in the past few years some of the sponsors left, so, R\u00e9p\u00e1s said, this is why the costs of the Model Agency are covered by his other activities, for example hostess and model jobs.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s claims that through his agency he knows every Hungarian model, and many celebrities also have connections with his company. He has several thousands of friends on Facebook, many of them young and pretty girls. According to his messages on his phone and Facebook that police obtained during the investigation, R\u00e9p\u00e1s was in contact with a huge number of girls. Some of them called him R\u00e9pa, R\u00e9puci, Papa, R\u00e9papapa or Lajosom (from his Hungarian name, R\u00e9p\u00e1s that means carroty, this nicknames could translated as: Carrot, Little Carrot, Papa, Carrot Papa, or My Lajos).<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s sometimes sent Facebook-messages to unknown girls he found attractive, and invited them to his office on the Grand Boulevard of Budapest. The investigation files reveal that the landlord of the office was exchanging e-mails with R\u00e9p\u00e1s for several months, asking him not to amass more debt than the 2-3 months that \u201che is allowed to\u201d, and at least he should pay for his own utility bills from the past months. The other tenants in the apartment house regularly complained that there are too many unknown people frequenting R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 office, they are making too much noise and shutting the main gate too loudly.<\/p>\n
This is the office to which R\u00e9p\u00e1s invited the underage girl who was catcalled on the street by one of his acquaintances. According to her testimony, the first time she went to the office R\u00e9p\u00e1s immediately wanted to have sex with her, \u201cjust to try her\u201d, but the girl resisted. The girl told in her testimony that R\u00e9p\u00e1s brought up in his defence that \u201cok, it might have been a bit too quick\u201d, but, as he said, he really liked the girl. After this, they started to talk about job opportunities as the girl wanted to earn some money besides her studies. He warned her that she has to keep her age secret because R\u00e9p\u00e1s \u201cmight be busted for this\u201d. So if anyone asks, she should tell that she is already 19 or 20. For her first job, the girl had to go for a dinner in a steak house in the city centre, and chat with several men and women. For this she received 100\u00a0000 forints (375 euros at the current exchange rate). In a few weeks, however, R\u00e9p\u00e1s informed her that these conversational jobs are very rare, the clients generally pay for sex.<\/p>\n
Similarly to this underage girl, for many women these jobs meant long- or short-term solution for financial problems. \u201cHi Lajos! Pls give me a job these days, I have bill problems\u201d \u2013 wrote one of the women in a text message. Another women, according to the records of the tapped phone conversations, was very happy when R\u00e9p\u00e1s offered her a job, as she had just bought a washing machine for 60000 forints (220 euros at the current exchange rate) \u2013 and one hour of sex would nicely cover these costs.<\/p>\n
During the testimonies every woman was asked about what income they had and they gave very similar answers. \u201cI\u2019m unemployed, my family pays for my living\u201d, or \u201cI\u2019m living on by-works, for example model or hostess jobs and photo shooting.\u201d The prostitutes included students of vocational schools and even some university students, for example one girl who was doing a distance learning course of Liberal Arts. Another girl contacted R\u00e9p\u00e1s after she had been fired from secondary school and also had quit from a night club on V\u00e1ci Street of Budapest, where she had been dancing in lingerie for 20000 forints (65 euros) a week plus \u201cpanties-money\u201d. Others said that it is always their current boyfriend who pays for their living. According to the testimony of one of the girls many of them were searching for a rich boyfriend among their clients \u2013 they wanted to have a sponsor, as they call him.<\/p>\n
The Prosecutor\u2019s Office brought charges against R\u00e9p\u00e1s in August 2014, accusing him of procuring prostitution and pimping, but his trial is likely to go on for several more years. In total 107 witnesses were summoned, but so far only a very small number of people have turned up at the court. R\u00e9p\u00e1s is very active during the hearings: every time when he is given the possibility, he jumps up from the bench and vividly gesticulates while he talks in his own defence, or bombards the women who came to court as witnesses with questions. According to some people who know him, in his pre-trial detention he used his time to read everything he could find about the laws in connection with his case as he wanted to become a true expert of the field. During one of his hearings he was talking so quickly that the person taking the minutes had to ask him several times to slow down, and his confident arguments provoked repressed smiles and some giggling from the audience.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s argues that he did not force anyone to do anything, women contacted him by their own free will and they were the ones asking him to offer jobs for them. R\u00e9p\u00e1s claims that he did this through his model and hostess mediating agency, and the income that he gained from his activities did not increase his own wealth but was reinvested into his business, through which R\u00e9p\u00e1s also organized beauty contests. The investigation files contain R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 manuscripts that explains how his real activities as an agent differed from the charges brought against him. For example, he drew a chart saying while procuring is present in the sex industry with the participation of a prostitute, a pimp and a guest, his agency\u2019s activities are in the field of beauty and entertainment industry and the people involved are called on different names (the girl, the agent and the principal).<\/p>\n
In the manuscript R\u00e9p\u00e1s also details the kinds of hostess works for which he organized women: he differentiates event-, translator-, social- and party hostess girls. According to his definition, party hostess girls, for example, \u201care beautiful girls who raise the prestige of the event with their presence and dresses, and they enhance the mood with their dance, conversations and smiles\u201d. R\u00e9p\u00e1s and his lawyer, Istv\u00e1n Kl\u00e9ber, expressed the defendant\u2019s position in a written statement, claiming that R\u00e9p\u00e1s has been subject to a disadvantage because of the \u201cprudery of the society and immaturity of the case law\u201d. While R\u00e9p\u00e1s has to defend himself at court, there are many websites and dating agencies with clearly lucrative aims that can operate undisturbed, they argued. In contrast with them, R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 women were only ordered for hostess jobs, \u201cwhether they had sex with someone depended on personal sympathy and on their autonomous decision\u201d, the statement said.<\/p>\n
The testimony given by one of R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 clients is in line with these arguments. If he ordered girls from R\u00e9p\u00e1s for escort or hostess jobs that meant, he said, that he would have a dinner in a restaurant with the girl \u201cand after that I can fuck her if the girls wants it as well, or if we feel some sympathy towards each other\u201d. On the other hand, the organizer of the Buda\u00f6rs party mentioned in the introduction had different ideas about the meaning of sympathy: \u201cThe girls\u2019 task was to entertain the guests and have sex with them in case of sympathy. Sympathy did not depend on the girls \u2013 the participants decided if they wanted have sex with a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many women testified that an escort or hostess job meant sex work. \u201cIt was needless to say that the clients would want to have sex (\u2026) it\u2019s obvious that they are not coming here just to take us for a dinner\u201d \u2013 said one of the prostitutes. According to many testimonies, if R\u00e9p\u00e1s said work over the phone that meant sex work. If he had some jobs to offer that did not involve sex he explicitly emphasized that, calling it a conversational job. The investigation files show that judging from the price offered by the clients, the prostitutes could also easily find out what the client wanted \u2013 the jobs that paid better, certainly involved sex.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s worked with different tariffs. \u201cNormal models cost 200 euros per hour, but the better ones, those who have already appeared on the front page of Playboy, CKM and Covergirl cost 200-300 euros\u201d \u2013 R\u00e9p\u00e1s informed one of the potentials clients about the price of the girls, during a tapped phone conversation in May 2011. Girls had to pay 20-25 percent of their payment as \u201ctax\u201d, which was the amount that R\u00e9p\u00e1s received for acting as a middleman between the girls and the clients. R\u00e9p\u00e1s told the authorities this money was paid in exchange for his efforts, as he \u201chad to select the exact type of girl or a certain person from thousands of girls\u201d according to the clients\u2019 wishes.<\/p>\n
Based on the police\u2019s documents, R\u00e9p\u00e1s selected the girls based on his personal tests. One woman told the police that the first time when she went to R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 office, the man showed her a catalogue and pointed at the girls, saying that \u201cI fucked this one yesterday, and I also fucked this other one.\u201d Then he asked the woman: \u201cWhat did you think? How do I decide who gets the job out of 300-400 girls?\u201d Another woman testified that when she went to R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 office the first time, he only asked for oral sex to test her, while another woman said that she had to have sex with R\u00e9p\u00e1s 3-4 times. \u201cHe always got me to do it by blackmailing me, saying that if I don\u2019t have sex with him again there won\u2019t be any jobs for me\u201d \u2013 said the girl who was under 18 when she first had to have sex with R\u00e9p\u00e1s. According to the investigation files, R\u00e9p\u00e1s did not ask for his percentage from the payment if the girl slept with him from time to time. \u201cHalf an hour of talking about the job offer + half an hour of kisses\u201d \u2013 he wrote to one of the girls in a message, and he said to another that she \u201cwould not have to pay the tax if she comes to the office half an hour earlier\u201d.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s denied these claims. In an interview one of his daughters even stated that it is true that R\u00e9p\u00e1s had a mattress and pillows in a small room in his office, but it was due to the fact that he had a bad knee and during the day he had to sit down to have a bit of rest.<\/p>\n
It is not only the testimonies of the girls but also the records of the tapped phone calls that reveal that R\u00e9p\u00e1s suggested girls to his clients based on his own experience. He praised one playmate saying that \u201cher boobs are as big as my head\u201d, and he promoted another one telling that \u201cshe has the best ass, the best pussy, and she even made her boobs done.\u201d When a long-time female friend called him on the phone and asked if R\u00e9p\u00e1s would have some jobs for her, R\u00e9p\u00e1s \u201cfunnily added that just like at Suzuki, he would do a test drive\u201d with the woman so that he can decide whether she is good enough.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 office on the Grand Boulevard often functioned as the place where potential clients were introduced to the available girls. If the client liked a girl, he could immediately take her to a hotel room. It was also possible to select the girls from catalogues, leaflets of the agency or the model registration documents.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s also offered to send photos of the girls via e-mail. R\u00e9p\u00e1s used the info@sexy.hu e-mail address, and he sent the pictures to various e-mail addresses, some of them including words like \u201cbitang\u201d, \u201ckapit\u00e1ny\u201d and \u201cdagadt\u201d (which mean \u201cbad boy\u201d, \u201ccaptain\u201d and \u201cchubby\u201d in Hungarian). A Hungarian billionaire, CEO of a company, gave an e-mail address of his workplace to R\u00e9p\u00e1s so that he sends pictures of some lesbian porn stars who would be up for a threesome with the man and his girlfriend. In the end the billionaire realized that the e-mail address he gave might not be the best choice, as \u201cthe whole company sees it\u201d, and asked R\u00e9p\u00e1s to delete it.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s notified the girls who had been selected over the phone or in short text messages: \u201cWork 8 pm tonight. 150000\/2 ok?\u201d meant that a job starting at 8 pm would take 2 hours and the girl would receive 150000 forints (560 euros) for it. The text messages found by the police in R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 phone show that the girls were grateful for these offers: \u201cI\u2019m back at home, my Little Carrot! Thanks for everything! I love you!!!\u201d \u2013 wrote one of the girls a bit after 11 pm on one day. If R\u00e9p\u00e1s did not contact a girl for a long time, they would start to bombard him with several e-mails and text messages. \u201cIf you can give a job for me today or tomorrow, I\u2019ll give you 30% of it. Plus we can even have sex ;)\u201d \u2013 wrote one girl, with whom R\u00e9p\u00e1s was angry because the girl had cancelled one of her jobs before. \u201cBut Lajos, I luv U\u201d \u2013 wrote the girl to make up to him, and the next day she even asked R\u00e9p\u00e1s in a text message: \u201cLajos daddy, could we be friends again?\u201d.<\/p>\n
The women rarely turned down R\u00e9p\u00e1s\u2019 job offers. The records of the tapped phone calls show that it happened mostly when they had another better paying meeting scheduled. But some had other reasons too. A young girl had to cancel one of her jobs because her mother would not let her go out because it was too late in the night. A woman turned down an offer because she should have met someone that she knew and she wanted to keep her profession secret. One girl asked R\u00e9p\u00e1s to introduce her exclusively to foreigners, to delete her real name from all the databases and only use a pseudo name.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the girls had to do strange things. During the winter of 2011, for example, three girls had to go to a party in a hunters\u2019 house, where their task was to perform a lesbian show, chat with 6-8 foreigner guests in the Jacuzzi and then have sex with them. But before all these, the women were sent out into the rain: they had to watch a hunting ritual in the garden.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9p\u00e1s offered some jobs that he described as easy ones. A 65-year-old client, for example, wanted a girl who is very good at oral sex, and for 500000 forints per month (1800 euros at the current exchanges rate) would be the life partner of the man living under luxurious conditions. The girl whom R\u00e9p\u00e1s contacted promised that she would \u201cdo everything she can to make the man like her\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the investigation files, most of the women tried to get done with their work as quickly as possible. This was the case in a party that took place in a castle hotel where two women were invited to entertain the Russian guests. \u201cWhen we arrived, we ate something, tried to select the biggest loser of them, we took him and got the job done in two minutes. We asked for our 500-500 euros in advance, and we gave him a blowjob. Then we went home from the party\u201d \u2013 told one girl in her testimony about one of the \u201ceasy works\u201d.<\/p>\n
Most of the nights began with some drinking. Many of the women testified that they got so drunk that they could hardly remember what happened during the night. They did not know how many men they slept with, neither how much money they received for the intercourses. \u201cI was with a man, and there is only one thing I can recall: he was smelly\u201d \u2013 this is all one woman could recall about one of her nights. One client was complaining about another prostitute to R\u00e9p\u00e1s: \u201cThere was nothing, the girl might be on cocaine, and it was very bad\u201d \u2013 told the man, adding that the girl did not even let the men to touch him.<\/p>\n
The investigation files described more than hundreds of nights like this, but mostly they ended in a similar way: the girls went to the office on the Grand Boulevard to give R\u00e9p\u00e1s his share of the night\u2019s payment. However, when R\u00e9p\u00e1s was already \u201ctrembling for money\u201d, he would rather wait until the girls finish their job, and sometimes even gave them a ride home in his old Peugeot \u2013 testified one of the girls. During his trial R\u00e9p\u00e1s repeatedly claimed that all the revenue he receives from the organization of these meetings are reinvested in the beauty contests.<\/p>\n
Now he is organizing the Miss Hungary 2015, the 25th jubilee contest of the beauty pageant. When he met the journalist of Direkt36, he was happy to give one of his latest catalogues with the photos of the beauty pageant contestants. \u201cThis is my business card\u201d \u2013 he added with a laugh.<\/p>\n
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