The man was sentenced for aggravated pandering and assault as well as harassment of his girlfriend.
According to the court, the 27-year-old man solicited for customers of at least five transgender people from May to December last year.
A transgender person’s experience of their own gender does not conform to their gender as defined by birth.
The prostitutes were selling sexual services from a Helsinki hotel. The rooms were rented out in the convict’s name, and he kept half the income of the prostitutes for himself.
In addition to imprisonment, he has to pay the state over 23,000 euros in compensation for criminal gains.
