A senior Sony vice president has been fired from the company after he was allegedly caught by an online vigilante group arranging to meet up with a 15-year-old boy for sex

George Cacioppo, a senior vice president at Sony Interactive Entertainment who had been at the company since September 2013, was featured in a video by the People v. Preds group which was posted online on December 3.

The footage, which has been viewed more than 86,000 times on YouTube, shows a member of the vigilante group confronting Cacioppo outside his home in the early hours of the morning.