The police caught a gang that made billions of won while running a corporate prostitution business in the metropolitan area for three years.
The Gyeonggi Northern Police Agency announced today (3rd) that it arrested Mr. A (45) on charges of violating the Act on Punishment of Acts such as Procurement of Prostitution and booked five employees, including the head of the sales office, without detention on the same charge.
These organizations are suspected of renting officetels in Bundang-gu (Room 40) and Uijeongbu-si (Room 2) for three years from January 2020 to December last year and operating a brothel.
The brothel they operated received a fee of 110,000 won to 190,000 won per session, depending on the type.
The criminal proceeds estimated by the police by analyzing sales books were about 1.6 billion won per year, and it was found that a total of 4.7 billion won was earned over three years.
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The advertisement for the establishment was conducted through an illegal prostitution mediation site, and it was investigated that it operated for a long time targeting men who visited once.
The police applied for confiscation and preservation before indictment for 4 apartments and 4 luxury imported vehicles owned by them.
A police official said, "We will continue to crack down on new and variant sex trafficking establishments such as massage rooms and kissing rooms as well as officetel brothels to eradicate illegal activities."
(Photo = Provided by Gyeonggi Northern Police Agency, Yonhap News)