Hotel executive questioned in prostitution probe
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ALAN Ho, executive director of the Hotel Lisboa in Macau, was being questioned by prosecutors yesterday in connection with an alleged prostitution ring, according to Hong Kong newspaper Mingpao.
Police said Ho, 68, had been apprehended on Sunday along with five workers and 96 women they said were prostitutes, 95 from the Chinese mainland and one from Vietnam.
Police said they received a tip-off in April last year that hotel executives were allowing sex workers to solicit clients at the hotel and had identified Ho as a key figure, the Macau News reported. According to the newspaper, an initial investigation found that Ho had conspired with a security manager, two housekeeping managers and two other employees to make a profit of more than 400 million patacas (US$50 million) since 2013.
Two of the staff were from the Chinese mainland, a 40-year-old female housekeeping manager and a 32-year-old female receptionist, it reported.
Police said the group had set aside nearly 100 hotel rooms for prostitutes with each paying a 150,000 yuan (US$24,180) “entrance fee” to be allowed to work in the hotel for a year. In addition, they had to pay a “protection fee” of about 10,000 patacas a month, they said.
A police spokesman told a press conference that prostitutes usually charged from 1,500 to 5,000 patacas for sex.
He said police raided 90 rooms on Saturday evening, finding 96 prostitutes and cash in yuan and Hong Kong dollars worth about a million patacas.
Twenty of the woman were found to have entered Macau illegally while 10 others had fake IDs.
Reporters were told that police on the Chinese mainland had been asked to assist in the investigation, including examining bank accounts there.
Ho and the staff members are being questioned over their alleged involvement in a criminal organization and pimping, Mingpao reported.
Prostitution is legal in Macau but profiting from organizing prostitution is not.
Ho is the nephew of Stanley Ho, 93, whose SJM Holdings Ltd is Asia’s biggest casino operator with 18 casinos and two hotels in Macau.
He set up the Hotel Lisboa in 1970.
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