Mobile prostitution ring using Chinese women

By Lakmal Sooriyagoda

Three persons including two Chinese women who were alleged to be involved in a mobile prostitution ring were remanded till February 27 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate yesterday.

The main suspect a Sri Lankan who had allegedly operated the ring and procured two Chinese women for prostitution had been arrested by Kollupitiya police while he was obtaining Rs.3000 from the decoy who carried out the raid in purchasing two Chinese women at 13th  Lane in Kollupituya on last Thursday (23) night.  

Subsequently, the Kollupitiya police had arrested the two Chinese women who were allegedly involved in the racket and the three-wheeler which is alleged to have been used for the operation was also taken into police custody.  

When the three suspects were produced before Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne, the suspects were ordered to be remanded till February 27 and the Magistrate further directed the prison authorities that the two women be produced before a venereal diseases clinic.