Information from the Criminal Police Department - Ministry of Public Security said that they have just dismantled a large-scale prostitution ring operating on cyberspace.
On January 30, the Investigation Police Agency prosecuted the ring's pimp, Nguyen Huu Thai (26 years old, residing in Tan Phu district, Ho Chi Minh City) for "prostitution brokerage".
It is known that Thai has a criminal record for "Illegal possession of drugs".
Accordingly, through the investigation and monitoring process, on January 17, detectives from the Criminal Police Department coordinated with District 1 Police to suddenly raid a hotel in District 1. There, the police caught two couples red-handed in the act of prostitution .
Based on the statements of those involved, the police arrested pimp Nguyen Huu Thai. Searching Thai's house, the police seized a large amount of cash, savings books, related evidence and froze a bank account of 8.5 billion VND.
According to the investigation agency, after being released from prison in June 2022, 2 months later, Thai started working as a prostitution broker on the internet.
Initially, he created telegram and zalo accounts with female avatars to join many groups that engaged in prostitution, aiming to attract models to work in the network run by Jews.
At the same time, Thai created many telegram groups to find customers and gather more prostitutes. On the groups, Thai posted information about prostitutes such as: pictures, measurements, prices, areas of operation... to invite customers.
There are VIP groups run by Thais, gathering models, actors, singers, hot girls, students... and participants must pay a certain fee to be approved to join.
When customers need to contact, Thai communicates privately via telegram or zalo to send pictures and information of prostitutes for customers to choose from.
Thai offers prostitution prices from 5 million to hundreds of millions of dong depending on the beauty and popularity of the prostitute.
Operating in cyberspace, sitting in one place, Thai can broker prostitution across provinces and even abroad.
In particular, Thai also makes full use of social networks such as Facebook, Tiktok, Youtube, Zalo... to advertise about closed groups providing models and Thai uses many fake accounts to increase interaction. Therefore, in a short time, the groups created by Thai, holding admin rights, have gathered a huge number of members.
Through investigation, it was determined that Thai was managing and operating 7 closed groups with about 65,992 members.
At the time Thai was arrested, detectives recorded that many customers sent money to his bank account to request approval to join the closed group, and many prostitutes contacted him to provide information and request approval to join the group so that Thai could broker prostitution.
Police said that from the time he started operating until he was discovered and arrested, about a year and a half, Thai illegally profited about 15 billion VND from prostitution brokerage and membership fees for VIP groups from members.
Currently, the Criminal Police Department is expanding its investigation and pursuing subjects related to this large-scale prostitution ring on cyberspace.
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