Japanese Female Organized Prostitution Broker Arrested for Overseas Solicitation "Risk of Evidence Destruction and Flight"

The owner accused of arranging sex trafficking involving Japanese women traveling to Korea has been arrested.

On the 12th, Judge Jeon Eun-jin of the Seoul Central District Court conducted a pre-arrest detention hearing for Park Mo, a man in his 30s, who is charged with advertising and arranging sex trafficking with Japanese women on an online sex trade site (violation of the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic). After the hearing, the judge issued an arrest warrant. Judge Jeon stated the reason for issuing the warrant was "concerns over evidence destruction and flight risk."

On the afternoon of the 12th, business owner A, who arranged prostitution with Japanese women online, is leaving the courtroom after the pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant hearing) held at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu.
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Earlier, Park arrived at the court at 1:10 p.m. On questions from reporters about whether he admitted the charges and how he recruited the women locally for sex trafficking, he did not respond and proceeded to the courtroom.

According to the police, Park is suspected of posting advertisements titled "Girls of the Archipelago" on an online sex trade site from his office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, since at least November of last year, arranging sex trafficking.

On the 9th, police arrested three Japanese women in their early to mid-20s at a hotel in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on charges of violating the Act on the Punishment of Acts of Arranging Sexual Traffic and the Immigration Control Act.

The arrested women had entered Korea earlier this month for the purpose of sex trafficking but falsely declared tourism as their reason for entry. They were handed over to the immigration office.

The police are investigating the detailed circumstances of the crime, including whether there are intermediaries who recruit women locally and send them to Korea.

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