Immigration Dept busts prostitution ring via WeChat
Penang Immigration Department operations division chief Izham Idris says the women were controlled by a syndicate and customers who wanted to hire their sex services only had to choose via the WeChat application. – EPA pic, March 11, 2019.
THE Penang Immigration Department crippled an online prostitution syndicate using the WeChat application and arrested foreign call girls in a raid on a hotel in Jalan Baru, Perai last Friday. Operations division chief Izham Idris said that in the 9pm operation, the Immigration team arrested 10 foreign women for involvement in immoral activities by offering sex to the hotel’s patrons.
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