Inside the 75-foot yacht.
The luxurious boat can sleep six people in its three bedrooms, has a full kitchen, dining areas and a swimming platform that can be raised and lowered into the water.
Bruce allows those with a spare $219,000 to also become one of seven shareholder-owners of the yacht.
Sarian’s barrister Brad Williams made no comment when contacted by the Herald.
This masthead in July revealed Sarian was a major test case for a new consent laws designed to protect sex workers from clients who refuse to pay. Under older laws, refusing to pay sex workers in NSW was commonly prosecuted as fraud. But the new laws allow sex workers to revoke consent, retroactively, if a client leaves them an empty envelope or uses other deceptions to deprive them of their agreed fee.
Sarian allegedly organised to have sex with the women, sometimes two at a time and sometimes asking them to urinate on him, before giving them the worthless cheques between February and June 2024, police claim.
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The NSW Police Sex Crimes Squad established Strike Force Angla and arrested Sarian in May. He has remained in custody ever since.
Last month Angla added two charges of fraud to Sarian’s case. He has yet to enter formal pleas.
Sarian describes himself as a “bon vivant”, “humanist at heart”, and “empath”.
Registrars at the Downing Centre Local Court originally blocked the release of documents in Sarian’s case.
The Herald successfully challenged the decision, saying it was important and in the public interest to report the accusations.
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