Anonymous ID: e3f92a Aug. 21, 2020, 8:56 a.m. No.10371648   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Sex syndicate found to have smuggled women from mainland China, used Hong Kong hotels as operations base: police sources

 

A prostitution syndicate has been smuggling women into Hong Kong despite travel restrictions in place amid the Covid-19 pandemic, plying their trade in two four-star hotels in the city, according to police sources.

The gang began its operations in April after noticing that mainland Chinese prostitutes could not come to the city through legal channels because of the closure of major border checkpoints and the 14-day quarantine measure, one source said.

 

“The syndicate then smuggled mainland sex workers into the city and arranged for them to work in dozens of rooms in two hotels in Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei,” he said.

“Meals and daily necessities were delivered to their rooms so that the women did not need to leave the hotels in an effort to avoid police detection.”

To tout business, the gang left posts with contact numbers on the internet. Clients were told the women’s room numbers and charged HK$1,300 (US$168) each.

 

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3098400/sex-syndicate-found-have-smuggled-women-mainland-china