Hong Kong - Hong Kong police have arrested 75 people, who have been proven to be involved in a covert circle of prostitution in several corners of the megapolitan city.
Although prostitution is legal in Hong Kong, but the semi-autonomous region of China is banning it from being organized in an organized manner.
If caught - individuals or groups - citing the profits of commercial sex workers, it will face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, as quoted by the New York Times on Sunday (18/3/2018).
mong those arrested, eight Hong Kong residents proved to be deliberately employing underage sex workers, and running an unlicensed massage parlor.
The arrest highlights how organized criminal gangs, known as Triads in Hong Kong, are believed to be in control of the local sex industry
The group is known to often rely on human cross-border trade chains, to get 'supply' of women from mainland China - and other countries - used as prostitutes.
Some prostitutes are not only coming from mainland China, but also from Southeast Asia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Said a local police official, quoted by the South China Morning Post.
Some of those arrested, proven to violate the use of tourist visas from the Hong Kong immigration to work to earn a living, so threatened with double punishment.
Violate Visiting Permit to Hong Kong
Commercial sex workers in Hong Kong can work legally in brothels registered with the local Social Service.
However, due to strict rules and high standards of operational costs, some people force the prostitutes under their control to work beyond the rules.
In fact, not a few of them have the heart to put the prostitutes in small apartments divided into several small borders, as long as peddling lust service in Hong Kong.
The raids were carried out in several units of apartments in the Yuen Long district, not far from the border with mainland China, on Wednesday night, March 14, 2018.
During a two-day check up to Friday, March 16, 2018, police found the fact that the prostitution-related syndicate employed foreign CSWs who came to Hong Kong through a tourist visa license.
By law in Hong Kong, every tourist visa applicant who receives money from any job - including sex work - is a violation of the risk of fines and imprisonment.
In the arrest on the same day, 59 women and eight men were arrested on charges of 'violating their conditions of stay', Hong Kong police said.
The related raids began with an investigation, codenamed Rushflow, which began three months ago.
The disclosure of this covert prostitution is the second time that occurred in 2018. Earlier, on January 31, police arrested 99 suspects in a raid against a 14-storey apartment in the Mong Kok district.
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