Former premiership player Ricky Olarenshaw is back in Bali, after the sex raids and arrests into the Flame Spa brothels
Former AFL premiership player Ricky Olarenshaw has been spied back in Bali — cruising around on a motorbike and living it up — after the brothel sex raids and arrests that saw his ex locked up.
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Former premiership player Ricky Olarenshaw is back where it all began in Bali, following sex raids and arrests into the Flame spa brothels.
Several sources close to the former Essendon star are gobsmacked he is back to his old tricks, brazenly cruising around the island and behaving like nothing has ever happened.
This is despite his estranged wife and mother of his two children, Saranitha Olarenshaw, being jailed for seven months in the tourist island’s notorious Kerobokan jail after being sentenced “for providing pornographic services” following sex raids into the couple’s Flame Spa massage parlours.
Ricky and his Australian Flame spa associates fled the country amid the October sex raids and have largely remained underground since.
Well except for on What’s App groups, where Olarenshaw is more than happy to skite and boast about his latest conquests and proclivities amid the sex scandal.
“How can he walk free like nothing happened?” a source close to Olarenshaw said.
The embattled former footballer has emerged on social media in recent days after going dark amid the scandal.
In one recent happy snap, Olarenshaw can be seen smiling while embracing his young daughter while swimming in a pool, though the picture is said to have been taken before the sex raids took place.
Another pic snapped by an eagle-eyed insider showed Olarenshaw zipping around the island on a motorbike this week.
He has been seen by several locals training with his former Bali Gecko’s AFL team and is understood to be planning to make an appearance at the Bali Masters, dubbed ‘the biggest Australian football tournament in the world’, this June long weekend.
Hosted by the Bali Geckos, which Olarenshaw has long had an interest in, the AFL Asia website states “the Bali Masters sees teams from all over the world flock to the island paradise for the June long weekend.”
Running for more than 20 years the over 35’s footy tournament is played on a sports field inland from Canggu, Bali.
“He has more front than Myer,” exclaimed one local with word his notorious Flame Spa will be back in business … as a massage parlour.
“It’s amazing what you can get away with when you know the right hands to shake and deals to make,” said another local and Aussie expat astounded Olarenshaw was back living it up in the tourist hotspot.
Ni Ketut Sri Astari Saranitha, 36, — known as Nitha — took the heat for operating Flame Spa in Bali that was offering sexual services, in breach of Indonesia’s strict ban on sex work.
In court she argued that her husband Olarenshaw, his brother Darren, and two other Australian men were the owners of the business.
Olarenshaw later described it as a “delicate and complicated situation” and that it was his wife’s business.
Classy stuff.