A pimp from the mainland has been caught in a private flat in Areia Preta, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Cheong Heon Fan said during a regular press conference in Zape yesterday.
Cheong identified the suspect as a man in his forties surnamed Liu.
The police recently received a tip-off from a local resident about prostitutes suspected of operating out of a flat in Rua Tres do Bairro Iao Hon, Cheong said. After the tip-off, police officers went to the flat on Saturday afternoon, where they found Liu and four women aged between 20 and 40 from Fujian, Hubei, and Hunan provinces.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) yesterday shows police officers escorting four women – three of them self-confessed sex workers – to a police vehicle.
