On Friday, the British newspaper The Sun published a case of debts against a presenter at the British broadcaster BBC. The BBC says in a statement that they take the debts very seriously. The man is to blame for having bought sexually explicit images of a teenager. The debts have led to the British Minister for Culture on Sunday calling for an emergency meeting with BBC chief Tim Davie. BBC chief Tim Davie was summoned to an emergency meeting with the British culture minister. Photo: Hannah McKay / AP The presenter has not been named, but the BBC has stated that he has been taken off the air. – In view of the debts, it is important that the BBC is now given room to carry out the investigation, establish the facts, and implement the necessary measures, wrote the British Culture Minister Lucy Frazer on Twitter. Frazer also writes that she will provide further updates on the matter. Lucy Frazer called in a meeting with Tim Davie on Sunday. Photo: DANIEL LEAL / AFP Supposed to have paid just under half a million kroner The debts to the presenter first appeared in The Sun newspaper. They call the presenter a high-profile employee of the British state channel. The newspaper owes the presenter for having paid more than 35,000 pounds, or just under half a million kroner, to a teenager in exchange for sexually explicit images. This amount must have been paid over three years. The contact between them must have started when the teenager was 17, and according to the mother, the money must have been used to buy crack cocaine. In a statement from the British Ministry of Culture, the debts are described as very worrying. Refusing to be involved After the debts were made public, several prominent BBC figures have spoken out on social media, denying being involved in the case. Rylan Clark, Jeremy Vine, Nicky Campbell and Gary Lineker are among them. Gary Lineker, the presenter of the BBC’s “Match of the Day”, has refused to be involved. Photo: PAUL CHILDS / Reuters According to BBC correspondent Lucy Manning, there must be speculation that the family of the teenager has previously been in contact with the British warcaster, but that they did not carry out a proper investigation. The BBC says in a statement that they have actively tried to talk to those who have contacted them to get more information and understanding of the situation. The BBC has previously been involved in scandal. The prominent BBC presenter Jimmy Saville was blamed after his death for having been behind a series of abuses against people between the ages of 5 and 75. Among those the late presenter is said to have preyed on were sick people at a hospital.
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