17 suspects arrested for online vice & prostitution

[Taishi Ci]

17 suspects arrested for online vice & prostitution
Posted: 18 June 2010 2310 hrs

SINGAPORE : Seventeen female foreigners were arrested during a joint four-hour operation at a budget hotel along Balestier Road on Thursday. Another was arrested for immigration offences.

More than 40 officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Tanglin Police were involved in the operation.

Preliminary police investigations indicated that some of those arrested had made use of the Internet to advertise their sexual services.

The police said investigations are ongoing and they are currently trying to track down the operators behind the vice activities.

Assistant director of the Specialised Crime Division, Superintendent of Police Goh Lam Kiong, said: "The police take a serious view of such syndicates which conduct their illicit businesses over the Internet and will continue our enforcement efforts against such vice activities...

"Any hotel operator who is found to have knowingly allowed such syndicates to operate in their premises will also be taken to task."

Under the Hotels Licensing Regulations, no licensee of a hotel shall permit any person who he knows or has reason to believe is a prostitute to occupy a room in the hotel or to frequent the premises.

A licensee who is convicted can be fined up to S$1,000. The court may also cancel or suspend any certificate of registration or licence granted under the Act.

- CNA/al

 

[Taishi Ci]

Posted on 08 Jun 2010

My Japanese guests openly solicited by pimps offering prostitutes in hotel lobby

<script src="http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php/en_US" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> FB.init("94647dc2aba553f149d6f1f12f85ecc6", "/xd_receiver.htm"); function callPublish(title, articleLink, description, thumbnailLink, myemotion) { var message = "is '" + myemotion + "' about this STOMP story: "; var attachment = { 'name': title, 'href': articleLink, 'description': description, 'media': [{ 'type': 'image', 'src': thumbnailLink, 'href': articleLink}] }; FB.Connect.streamPublish(message, attachment); } function shortenURL(articleLink){ shortURLLink = ""; $.getJSON("http://json-tinyurI.appspot.com/?&callback=?", {url: articleLink}, function(data) { shortURLLink = eval(data).tinyurI; }); } </script>
<!-- end mm_moodcontainer div --> STOMPer Alan's was horrified when a Chinese man approached his Japanese guests at a Balestier hotel. The man was offering them prostitutes.

He said:

"The recent raids to fight online vice seems to be futile.

"Last week, my company invited some Japanese guests over to Singapore and they checked into this hotel in Balestier.

"They were then openly solicited by this Chinese man at the hotel lobby who told them he had several prostitutes staying in the same hotel.

"He also said the prostitutes can be called upon if they wanted.

"My Japanese guests were taken aback.

"We informed the hotel staff but they acted like they were clueless about it.

"The Chinese man even gave us a name card with a link to their website.

"Are the hotel staff in cahoots with such people?

"It's horrible."

 

[SwineHunter]

18 foreign women caught


Jun 20, 2010
18 foreign women caught

A JOINT operation involving more than 40 officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Tanglin Police was conducted at a budget hotel in Balestier last Thursday. Lasting four hours, it led to the arrest of 18 foreign women for immigration offences and offences under the Women's Charter. Preliminary investigations indicated that some of those arrested had used the Internet to advertise sexual services.

Investigations are ongoing and the police are tracking down the operators behind the vice activities. Superintendent of Police Goh Lam Kiong, who is the assistant director of the specialised crime division at CID, said any hotel operator found to have knowingly allowed vice syndicates to operate on their premises will be taken to task.

Read the full story in The Sunday Times.