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3 men sentenced for running prostitution ring in CBD luxury flat
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THREE men were given prison sentences on Tuesday after being found guilty of organizing prostitution, the People's Court of Jing'an District said yesterday.
The group operated from a rented apartment in a luxury property on Beijing Road W. and advertised itself online as providing foot massages, the court heard.
In reality it sold sex services to more than 300 customers between November 10 and December 1 last year.
Its ringleaders were identified as two men surnamed Wang and Lin. The former was fined 20,000 yuan (US$3,200) and sentenced to six years and six months in prison, while his associate was given a lesser sentence of four years and six months in prison, and a 10,000 yuan fine as he had confessed to his crime.
A third man, identified as Xiao Qiang, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 5,000 yuan.Wang and Lin, who are both from out of town, divided the apartment into 10 rooms, each fitted with a bathroom and massage bed, and operated from noon through 2am daily, prosecutors said.
Customers paid 238 yuan for sex, of which the prostitutes received 150 yuan.A 29-year-old woman surnamed Hu told police that she earned more than 6,000 yuan in 10 days selling sex to up to eight men a day, adding that her co-workers made about the same.
The court did not say how many prostitutes worked from the apartment.
Following a police raid on December 1, several customers and sex workers were given administrative detentions.
Wang and Xiao Qiang were detained the same day, while Lin handed himself in to police several days later.
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