{"id":84934,"date":"2025-10-16T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:54:09","slug":"ceo-of-limerick-based-tech-firm-used-company-money-to-hire-and-house-girls-screened-from-illicit-websites-high-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84934\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of Limerick-based tech firm used company money to hire and house girls screened from illicit websites, High Court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image. Photo: Getty.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6b86a087-c888-4b1a-819e-a775e6429d6f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock image. Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The founder and majority shareholder of a Limerick-based multinational software development company has allegedly spent \u20ac100,000 of company money leasing homes in Dubai and China for girls he had hired for the firm who had been first screened from &#8220;various illicit websites&#8221;, the High Court heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Karl Bohlin, who is also CEO of multinational software group, HansaWorld, which specialises in enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management, has said his &#8220;highest priority&#8221; is finding a girlfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock image. Photo: Getty. The founder and majority shareholder of a Limerick-based multinational software development company has allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-84934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}