Nation-wide human-smuggling, prostitution ring busted by Mounties
Posted April 1, 2015 4:44 pm.
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MONTREAL (NEWS1130) – Mounties have broken up a nation-wide prostitution ring, which apparently smuggled as many as 500 Asian women into Canada.
Federal authorities announced today they’ve dismantled two major cells of the network in the last five days and arrested six people in the greater Montreal and Toronto areas.
The accused are allegedly part of an Asian-based organized crime ring that operated in Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Edmonton.
They face charges including procuring, procuring minors, advertising sexual services and gaining a material benefit from sexual services.
Police say the alleged victims, mainly from Korea and China, received assistance from a criminal organization to enter the country and were then controlled and exploited by the prostitution ring.
Two alleged ringleaders were arrested and flown to Montreal from Toronto today and are to appear in court Thursday, while police are seeking two other suspects.
