SINGAPORE — Working with two others, Tan Yung Meng obtained rental units in residential areas across Singapore and sublet them to sex workers to use as makeshift brothels.
Tan used the money his mother had earned from selling her Serangoon public housing flat — about S$100,000 — to rent four units. Over a few months, he earned S$7,500 before the authorities put an end to the scheme.
On Friday (March 26), the 49-year-old Singaporean was sentenced in a district court to six months and nine weeks’ jail.
He pleaded guilty to two charges under the Women’s Charter of being in charge of a brothel and living on prostitutes’ earnings, as well as a third charge of allowing one of the workers, who was an immigration offender, to stay in Singapore.
District Judge Marvin Bay considered another three similar charges for sentencing.
Tan will begin serving his sentence on April 16.
The court heard that Tan met up with his old acquaintance, Wee Teck Chuan, sometime in December 2017. Tan’s mother had just sold her flat, so Wee proposed that he fork out S$5,000 for a “kai gong fang” (operations of brothels) business.
Upon hearing that he would receive 40 per cent of the profits, Tan agreed.
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Tan used the money his mother had earned from selling her Serangoon public housing flat — about S$100,000 — to rent four units. Over a few months, he earned S$7,500 before the authorities put an end to the scheme.
On Friday (March 26), the 49-year-old Singaporean was sentenced in a district court to six months and nine weeks’ jail.
He pleaded guilty to two charges under the Women’s Charter of being in charge of a brothel and living on prostitutes’ earnings, as well as a third charge of allowing one of the workers, who was an immigration offender, to stay in Singapore.
District Judge Marvin Bay considered another three similar charges for sentencing.
Tan will begin serving his sentence on April 16.
The court heard that Tan met up with his old acquaintance, Wee Teck Chuan, sometime in December 2017. Tan’s mother had just sold her flat, so Wee proposed that he fork out S$5,000 for a “kai gong fang” (operations of brothels) business.
Upon hearing that he would receive 40 per cent of the profits, Tan agreed.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...ls-spore-using-mothers-hdb-flat-sale-proceeds
