Russian tourist who uploaded private videos of random Ghanaian women allegedly arrested 

Reports circulating online indicate that Russian social media personality Vyacheslav Trahov, widely known as Yaytseslav, has allegedly been arrested in Tokyo, Japan.

The development follows widespread backlash over videos showing his intimate encounters with women in Ghana, which sparked outrage across social media platforms.

Yaytseslav would go into public places, including a popular mall in Accra, strike a conversation with a woman of his choice while he is recording.

He will then convince them to either follow him to his hotel room or pay him a visit later in the evening.

While there might have been women he talked to who turned him down, the ones he posted all agreed to his proposal and visited him.

It is no clear if he used a stealth camera to record them, for instance, an eye-glass camera or Go-Pro, because not once did any of the women object to their being filmed.

It appears Yaytseslav safely exited Ghana before uploading all the videos, creating a lot of uproar in Ghana.

Reports online now suggest that Yaytseslav has been arrested in Tokyo after he arrived in Japan and lodged in a hotel.

A clip of the alleged arrest is circulating online, showing officials in overall branded with “Immigration” telling the man alleged to be Yaytseslav that he was under arrest in connection with some videos he uploaded.

The details of the video were not disclosed by the officials. They only recited his Miranda rights to him while putting him in cuffs.

The man speaking in smattering of English said he had never been arrested before and asked what he was allowed to take with him from the hotel

Ghanaian law forbids exposure of private encounters of an individual without their explicit consent.

Ghana’s Cybersecurity Act Section 67 particularly addresses the non-consensual distribution of intimate or confidential images. 

The law makes it an offence to intentionally share, or facilitate the sharing of, private visual recordings of another person without their consent.

A crucial element of the provision is proof of intent to cause serious emotional distress. The Act also applies in situations where the subject of the recording had a reasonable expectation of privacy at both the time the material was created and when it was subsequently distributed.

The legislation defines serious emotional distress to include psychological reactions such as fear, anxiety, humiliation, shock, indignity, and related emotional or even physical suffering.

Conviction under Section 67 carries a prison sentence ranging from three to 10 years.

At the time of filing this report, there has been no official confirmation from Japanese authorities regarding the alleged arrest.

See the video of his alleged arrest here.