Yuliyan Dimov, who was jailed for nine-and-a-half years in October 2024, was struck off by the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) on Tuesday, January 6.
A police investigation into the 47-year-old was launched in November 2022 after a woman reported that she was sexually assaulted during a massage at her home, London Now reports.
Another woman who had reported him the previous year but had withdraw from the investigation then got back in touch when she heard she was not the only victim.
Officers contacted all of Dimov’s female clients with a total of 10 women reporting that being victims of sexual abuse.
The Bulgarian national was arrested at Gatwick Airport when attempting to board a one-way flight back to his home country.
More than 30 photographs of women taken without their knowledge were found on his phone but Dimov claimed he had taken the photos with consent for his Facebook business page.
A judge at Wood Green Crown Court called this “frankly a lie, and a ridiculous one at that”.
He was convicted of six counts of voyeurism, two counts of attempted voyeurism, nine counts of sexual assault, and three counts of sexual assault against a total of ten victims.
Sentencing him, a judge said: “In the course of massaging them you took advantage, when they were unaware that you were doing so, of photographing them without their consent; sexually assaulting them.
“You took advantage of their vulnerability: their vulnerability being that they were alone; they were only partially clothed, just a towel covering them for most of the time, and their underpants; and, so for much of the time, also facing away from you, face down on the massage bench.”
Th judge said Dimov had a “distorted and dangerous view” of his power and an “unjustified arrogance” in presuming he could do this without repercussions.
“Words that described your behaviour included: ‘sneaky’, ‘sly’, ‘sleazy’, ‘manipulative’,” the judge said.
After considering the facts of Dimov’s conviction, the HCPTS decided the only possible sanction would be to strike him off their register.
