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New prostitution ring busted in Beirut

2-3-2020

The ISF General Directorate announced in a statement on February 29, that the Anti-Human Trafficking and Morals Protection Bureau at the Judiciary Police has received information on international and foreign mobile numbers facilitating the sex work of girls sent to Lebanon for this purpose. These girls reportedly are provided with sex clients in exchange for a sum of money. Accordingly, as a result of close surveillance, the girls, numbered 10, mainly from the Ukraine, Russia and Romania, were located and arrested inside hotels in Hamra and Sodeco neighborhoods of Beirut. The hotel rooms were searched and cash as well as money transfer bills were seized. Upon investigation and interrogation, the suspects admitted to what was attributed to them and were referred to the competent judiciary, the ISF statement concluded. (Al Mustaqbal, February 29, 2020)
 

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