Police busted a prostitution gang that kidnapped women from remote counties in the south of the mainland before taking them to Congo, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.
It said on its website that an investigation team, made up of police from Sichuan , Guangxi and Fujian provinces and spearheaded by the Ministry of Public Security, saved 15 Chinese women and detained two suspects in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday.
Police in Sichuan's Xuyong county received reports in May that several local women were trafficked to Congo for prostitution, it said.
An investigation by police in Luzhou , the city with jurisdiction over Xuyong, found three suspects, all Chinese, had smuggled women from the mainland to Congo several times and forced them into prostitution in clubs in Kinshasa.
Two of the suspects were returned under escort to China on Thursday and the other was still on the run, the ministry said.
A Luzhou public security bureau spokesman said it was the city's first case of women being trafficked across borders. 'There has been no such thing before,' he said.
