Tech CEO Accused of Raping, Torturing Employee in ‘Slave Contract’

The former chief executive of Tradeshift, a billion-dollar San Francisco business software startup, is accused of inflicting years of suffering and pain on an unidentified woman as he allegedly sexually trafficked her around the world.

In a lawsuit filed with the San Francisco County Superior Court, the woman accused Christian Lanng of forcing her to abide by a “slave contract” under which she endured “rape, sexual abuse, torture and assault.”

The woman accused Lanng of trafficking her across countries including the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Japan, trips during which she was allegedly “sexually assaulted, including being bound against her will and beaten to the point of bleeding.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.