Qi Luo
Friday, January 17, 2014
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The scale of the steamy sex racket was revealed yesterday after police arrested 84 people, including two mainland woman who plunged four floors while trying to escape.
One of the women was in a critical condition last night but the other was released from hospital after treatment.
Police said the syndicate members bossing the sex dens charged prostitutes HK$100 for each customer - "a referral" in their jargon - and reaped an estimated HK$300,000 a month.
The cops launched their roll-up action, codenamed Operation Fireline, on Wednesday after a year-long investigation.
Officers swarmed into 20 malls, residential buildings, unlicensed bars and game centers in Sheung Shui, Tai Po and Yuen Long.
The 84 arrested included 51 women - 37 from the mainland - and 33 other people on charges that included keeping a vice establishment, criminal intimidation, criminal breach of conditions of stay, drug trafficking, selling liquor without a license and claiming membership of a triad society.
A 58-year-old Hong Kong resident grabbed at a building in Yuen Long was believed to head the syndicate running the operation, and 22 of those arrested were thought to be members of gangs.
Knives, drugs and cash were seized during the operation.
A police spokesman said brothels operated for about 10 months in the Cheong Sing Building in Yuen Long.
The syndicate had converted the
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The shopping center occupies the first three stories of the 10-story building, with flats from the fourth floor up.
Law Kwok-hoi, a chief inspector with the New Territories North Regional Crime Unit, said the syndicate took advantage of the fact that relatively few people visited the shopping center and many shops were empty.
Its members used a code to contact clients, who paid HK$250 for sex. The syndicate took HK$100 in commission to rake in an estimated HK$10,000 daily or HK$300,000 a month.
Each prostitute in the ring serviced 15 to 20 customers every day.
The two women who were injured were in one of the seventh-floor units when police arrived at the door on Wednesday night. They tried to escape though window but fell four floors to a canopy on the third level.
The critically injured woman was taken to Pok Oi Hospital and the other to Tuen Mun after firemen rescued them.
Police are now investigating whether people who rented units to the syndicate knew they would be used in a sex racket.
Anyone who lets out premises knowing it will be used a vice den can be jailed for up to seven years.
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