Melbourne Man Pleads Guilty in Seeking-Linked Consent Case

Nektario Zafiratos, 53, pleaded guilty in Victoria’s County Court to procuring a sexual act by fraud after a 2023 meeting arranged through Seeking. The case turned on specific conditions that a 23-year-old university student had set before the encounter, including condom use and agreed financial terms. Using the profile name “Respectable D,” Zafiratos offered A$1,000 for companionship after meeting the student on Seeking.

The student booked a room at Melbourne’s W Hotel after being told she would be reimbursed. Reporting says Zafiratos also promised a Rolex and assistance with her £50,000 student debt. The prosecution case said he engaged in unprotected sex despite the prior condom agreement and used false financial promises to obtain further sexual activity. The woman reported the matter after he failed to provide promised payments and sexual-health test results. She later described lasting trauma and isolation in a victim-impact statement; sentencing was scheduled for a later date.

Entering a hotel room or accepting a financial arrangement does not amount to consent to every act. Victoria Police guidance says consent must be affirmative and ongoing, and specifically addresses intentional non-use or removal of an agreed condom. The Herald Sun provides the case reporting; the police guidance provides the wider legal context. The guilty plea establishes the offense reported here, but sentencing had not occurred when the report was published. The official consent guidance is general and does not replace the court record; unrelated allegations or earlier reports are not treated as proven facts in this case.