Employer Arrested for Hiring Undocumented Women to Facilitate Prostitution

An owner who employed female illegal immigrants and brokered prostitution was arrested by the police.

The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency announced on the 8th that one person in their 40s was detained and two others were released without detention on charges of violating the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic on April 30.

According to the provincial police agency, the three individuals are suspected of employing four Thai female illegal immigrants at six officetels in Changwon City from July 2022 to April this year to broker prostitution.

They advertised the women on prostitution brokerage websites and had them serve unspecified customers who came after seeing the ads, charging different fees depending on the course.

Inside the officetel where illegal prostitution mediation took place.
[Photo by Gyeongnam Police Agency]

The police obtained intelligence on the operation of prostitution establishments and, after two months of investigation including CCTV and communication surveillance, identified the suspects. A joint crackdown team was formed and the suspects were arrested separately in Changwon and Ulsan on the 27th of last month.

The four female illegal immigrants were given a rapid drug test, confirmed negative, and handed over to the Changwon Immigration Office.

Regarding the illegal proceeds, to ensure the effectiveness of confiscation and recovery sentencing, the police plan to apply for pre-indictment seizure and preservation to prohibit the disposal of the targeted assets before the final judgment.

From January to March, the first quarter of this year, the provincial police agency raided 19 illegal prostitution establishments, arrested 23 owners and others, and reported tax data worth approximately 306 million KRW to the National Tax Service.

Illegal profits worth approximately 189 million KRW have received pre-indictment seizure and preservation orders.

A representative of the provincial police agency said, “We will continue to make efforts to eradicate illegal activities through ongoing crackdowns on prostitution establishments. We will actively crack down on acts that adversely affect public morals.”

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