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Business owners who have organized business trip prostitution in the metropolitan area have been arrested. One of them even volunteered for a 'prostitution citizen watchdog' run by the local government for the purpose of reporting another competitor.
This is reporter Ha Jeong-yeon.
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A woman leaves the hotel and gets into the car.
Undercover cops ran out and surrounded the car,
[(Why?) Police officer. Get the car key, get the key.] The
prostitutes and the driver are arrested.
Behind the scenes, there was a gang that operated more than 40 prostitution sites and organized business trip prostitution.
A total of four companies were discovered, and they also have a system to hand over customers to each other when reservations are full.
[Han Kwang-gyu / Director of Life Order at Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency: (Among prostitution companies) Personal information is being managed in a DB with another criminal organization, prostitution is also a crime, and you can become a victim of other crimes… .]
They hired prostitutes and drivers non-face-to-face and had them transfer money to cannon accounts.
I also hired a separate withdrawal book, which imitates a voice phishing crime that cuts off the tail when crackdowns open.
[Call recording between prostitutes: There is only one way to enter, saying, 'I am alone' with the young lady carrying a gun. (There is no other answer than that.)]
One of the arrested business owners was found to have been active as a member of a prostitution internet citizen monitoring unit operated by a local government.
It was intended to disrupt business by reporting a competitor.
Local governments recruited monitoring team members on a first-come, first-served basis without any qualifications.
A professional producer of a prostitution brokerage site was also arrested, and each site took up to 5 million won in rent per month.
The police plan to secure a record of 10,000 prostitution inquiries and analyze the call history to track down the men who buy sex.
(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol, video editing: Hwang Ji-young, CG: Kang Yun-jeong, screen provided: Gyeonggi Nambu Police Agency)