. >> reporter: it unralphed this fall when police raided the dance studio and a nearby office. confiscating detailed records, hours of videotape, and what's now known as the list, names of alleged clients police are making public. today the man accused of bank rolling the studio, charged with 59 counts of promoting prostitution and invasion of privacy, is telling his side of the story for the first time days before his upcoming trial. >> we had a friendship. we talked often. i may see her once a month. >> reporter: married for more than 30 years and a father of two, local insurance agent mark strong sr. admits he co-signed the lease and gave wright a loan for her zumba studio, and he says they had a sexual relationship. >> never became romantic. we did have intimate moments, but it's not what i would consider romantic. >> reporter: it was just physical? >> it was strictly physical. >> reporter: how many times were you physical with her? >> i -- i don't know. >> reporter: did you ever pay her for an encounter? >> no. >> reporter: did you pay her for anything, a massage? >> no. >

there are some marvelous unsolved mysteries that may be unralphed someday. it used to be said in russia in 1990 you could fell the business was profitable from the trail of bodies that lead to the front door. if there were no bodies it wasn't worth paying attention to. it wasn't profitable. i'll leave it to your imagination where the international red cross was highly profitable by that measure in the 1990s in russia. the subsidies you could get for the import of tax free tobacco and alcohol to benefit good causes such as the red cross. even the science fiction story. what we're dealing here really when you come down it the oil industry in familiar grew up in almost completely isolation and this is virtually a unique case. we have other places where oil industry have gone grown up and run by national oil companies. almost in every case, in fact in every case, the industries were first founded by foreigners and then were taken over. not so in the case of russia where from the 19 20s rate on the oil industry was home grown and developed the own culture and civ