An Indian-origin CEO of a tech firm in the US was arrested on misdemeanour charges over allegations of engaging with high-end brothels.

Anurag Bajpayee, CEO at Gradient Corporation was named one of the accused for paying hundreds of dollars per hour for sex and a “girlfriend experience” with predominantly Asian women being exploited through sex trafficking, according to the New York Post.

As per media reports, in its statement, Gradient Corporation said, “We believe in the justice system and are confident that this will resolve favorably in due course. Unrelated to this, Gradient will continue to pursue excellence in technological innovation and to strive towards our mission to ensure clean water for all society.”

Bajpayee previously stood as a celebrated leader in water treatment technology and was even credited in Scientific American’s annual Top 10 World-Changing Ideas list, as per reports.

He is in the list of Innovators Under 35 of MIT Technology Review.

According to media reports, a married law maker of Cambridge is also included in the court documents and faces the same allegations as Bajpayee.

The list of accused in the boogie scandal involves ‘elites and powerful’ people who were government contractors, and professors, as per reports.

All the accused allegedly frequented a brothel ring based out of six luxury apartments in Cambridge and Watertown, Mass., and Washington, DC, suburbs, according to New York Post.