Four foreigners arrested for vice in late night raid

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ANTI-VICE RAID: Three of the women being led out of the hotel lobby to a waiting police van.

KUCHING: Four Chinese women were nabbed at a hotel at Jalan Song Thian Cheok for vice, following a raid by state Anti Vice, Gambling and Gangsterism division (D7) personnel on Wednesday night.

The 11pm operation – codenamed Ops Noda – was conducted following two days of surveillance by police, which culminated with four senior and 12 officers storming four separate rooms used by the women for their illicit activities.

During the raid, one of the women was in the middle of servicing a client in her room while the other three were in the process of ‘negotiating’ with four men in their respective rooms.

Police also seized 54 unused condoms and four used ones, two bottles of lubricant and RM8,800 in cash from the women along with a piece of paper used to record their takings.

State D7 officer-in-charge DSP Ahmad Asri Jamaluddin disclosed yesterday that initial investigation revealed the women would charge each client RM140 for sexual intercourse, and would service between six and eight customers a day.

“All four Chinese women, aged between 22 and 26, have been detained under Section 372B of the Penal Code for soliciting for prostitution purposes.

“The five local male customers were also detained but later released after their particulars were recorded,” said Ahmad Asri, who revealed police had previously raided the same hotel in July 2011during which they nabbed two Chinese women for prostitution.

Meanwhile, a source disclosed that one of the women nabbed in Wednesday’s raid was the same foreigner who had fallen victim to a snatch thief in front of an eatery across the road from the hotel last month.

The woman, who was also one of those detained in the raid, and her fellow nationals were walking along the five-foot-way of a shophouse on July 19 when the former fell to the ground and was dragged when a youth snatched her handbag.

Members of the public were able to catch the youth and handed him over to the police, although his accomplice managed to escape.