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SCMP Reporter

YOUNG Thai and Filipino women are being lured to Hong Kong, set up in bogus marriages and forced to work as prostitutes in a racket run by the Sun Yee On triad society, according to police.

  An undercover police operation against vice in a building five minutes' walk from Sau Mau Ping police headquarters ended yesterday with the closure of several brothels.

  These had been operating for about three years on several levels of an old building housing families.

  Police intelligence indicated that the arrival of the prostitutes in Hong Kong and their residency as bogus newlywed wives of Chinese locals was arranged by the Sun Yee On.

  ''We believe the Sun Yee On are the masterminds behind this scheme, but at the moment we don't have sufficient evidence to prosecute,'' said Sau Mau Ping police district operations officer Chief Inspector Ringo Chan Lik-kin.

  More than a dozen plain-clothes officers and almost as many uniformed officers went to Yan On Mansions in Sau Mau Ping yesterday to execute a six-month closure of the brothels.

  The move comes after an undercover officer posed as a client earlier this year. His evidence prompted a series of raids and led to convictions against two employees for operating a vice establishment and living off the earnings of prostitution.

  The brothel started anew a few months later and police secured a second round of convictions, clearing the way for an application to a magistrate for the closure order.

  The closure went smoothly apart from a minor disturbance by the owner of the premises.

     who has begun renovating the former brothels.



Foreign women lured to HK brothels