Pearls Centre retailers hire PI to expose vice activities at massage parlours
AsiaOne
Monday, Sep 24, 2012
SINGAPORE - Disgruntled retailers at Pearls Centre have decided to put an end to vice activities at massage parlours in the building by hiring a private investigator to uncover their illegal activities.
These retailers contributed $6,000 for a PI to secretly record footage of women soliciting for business at these massage parlours.
A shop owner who declined to give his real name told Lianhe Wanbao that he and four other shop owners have been neighbours with these massage parlours for four years. However, they lacked evidence to end the vice activities.
He said his beauty centre was a legitimate one but suffered loss of business as it was located just beside the massage parlours. Customers also mistook them to be offering sexual services.
The private investigator has recorded six video clips of the women soliciting customers. He spent three weeks exposing these massage parlours.
Another shop owner said the massage parlours have ruined the reputation of the place. Customers who visited their shops were turned away by the presence of the scantily-clad women.
The retailers plan to submit the video clips as evidence to the police and assist them in closing down these massage parlours.