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Crackdown busts 120 vice gangs
By Feng Jianmin |
September 13, 2010, Monday
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BEIJING police announced they have busted 120 gangs suspected of being involved in gambling and prostitution during a crackdown last month, which saw the arrest of more than a hundred people for spreading prostitution ads on the streets and through the internet.
The crackdown also shut 131 venues and police said they nabbed four people alleged involved in prostitution on Saturday night.
The police say that crimes involving gambling, prostituting and drug trading have declined since they stepped up strict enforcement measures in the city.
Since April, Beijing police have dealt with 1,205 cases of gambling, a plunge of 66.4 percent from the same period last year, according to statistics.
The number of prostitution reports also fell 42.6 percent to 1,931 during the same period.
But police also admitted that such activities are now carried out over a wider area and to fight against the gangs, the police conducted unexpected and unannounced visits to venues suspected of gambling and prostituting.
During an overnight raid starting on Saturday, police inspected over 40 entertainment venues and arrested four people involved in sex deals.
Some journals recording the sex deals were also discovered, Beijing News reported yesterday.
Misleading sign
One of the venues, located in a residential community in the east-end of Beijing, was disguised as a foot-massage shop. A ''no prostitution'' sign was displayed at the entrance.
The police became suspicious of the place when they found people kept coming in and out of a room on the second floor of the building during an earlier visit.
''The owner bought some apartments across three levels of the residential building,'' a police told the reporter.
The deal was made in an apartment on the second floor, before the client was taken to other rooms for sex.
A journal showed the prostitutes charged each client from 200 to 600 yuan (US$30-US$89).
The crackdown also shut 131 venues and police said they nabbed four people alleged involved in prostitution on Saturday night.
The police say that crimes involving gambling, prostituting and drug trading have declined since they stepped up strict enforcement measures in the city.
Since April, Beijing police have dealt with 1,205 cases of gambling, a plunge of 66.4 percent from the same period last year, according to statistics.
The number of prostitution reports also fell 42.6 percent to 1,931 during the same period.
But police also admitted that such activities are now carried out over a wider area and to fight against the gangs, the police conducted unexpected and unannounced visits to venues suspected of gambling and prostituting.
During an overnight raid starting on Saturday, police inspected over 40 entertainment venues and arrested four people involved in sex deals.
Some journals recording the sex deals were also discovered, Beijing News reported yesterday.
Misleading sign
One of the venues, located in a residential community in the east-end of Beijing, was disguised as a foot-massage shop. A ''no prostitution'' sign was displayed at the entrance.
The police became suspicious of the place when they found people kept coming in and out of a room on the second floor of the building during an earlier visit.
''The owner bought some apartments across three levels of the residential building,'' a police told the reporter.
The deal was made in an apartment on the second floor, before the client was taken to other rooms for sex.
A journal showed the prostitutes charged each client from 200 to 600 yuan (US$30-US$89).
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