Busted – prostitution ring led by Indonesian ‘mummy’

 

Some of the foreign women detained during the anti-vice operation. (Immigration department pic)

PUTRAJAYA: A prostitution ring masterminded by an Indonesian woman called ‘Mummy’ was busted during an operation conducted in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor on Feb 9.

Immigration director-general Khairul Dzaimee Daud said three entertainment centres and transit houses were raided.

A total of 36 people — 27 Indonesian women, two Vietnamese women, four Thai women and a Bangladeshi customer, along with two local men working as caretakers — were arrested.

“The intelligence we gathered indicated that the ring was led by an Indonesian woman called ‘Mummy’. She acted as a ‘madam’, managing and tending to the foreign women engaged in prostitution at several of the entertainment centres,” Khairul said.

“The ring managed to rake in an estimated profit of around RM2,888,000 from the illicit activities,” he said in a statement here today.

Some of those arrested were found to possess social visit passes, student passes or documents linked to the work recalibration programme. Checks revealed that the stamps for social visit passes were fake.

The foreigners have been detained at the Semenyih immigration depot. - FMT