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Pinay made $1.08M in Singapore by luring kababayans into sex work.

October 10, 2014 

 

 

A Filipina registered as a Singapore permanent resident now awaits sentencing for six charges stemming from her alleged recruitment of sex workers for bars owned by her Singaporean husband.

According to a report on The New Paper, a Singaporean print and online publication, Ylarde Anne Asuncion, 31, and her husband, Ang Boon Seng, pleaded guilty in August to charges related to vice activities, including the provision of sexual services in their establishments.

A separate report on Straits Times said Asuncion helped her husband by recruiting women to work as "performing artists" in the pubs whenever she returned home to the Philippines.

She would allegedly tell the women that they must pay off a "debt" by providing sexual services in the pubs. If they accept the clause, these women will be flown out to Singapore.

At least 55 women were brought to Singapore through this method, which brought at least $60,000 "on good months," according to The New Paper.

Described as a "highly organised" operation by Singaporean e-newspaper My Paper, the women earned points for servicing clients.

Each point was worth $4, and by offering clients sexual services worth $22 to $55, they may earn three to four points.

These points were reportedly used to pay off their debts.

Ang allegedly monitors the clubs through cameras feeding to his office and through four local nightclub managers, who would arrange the women's entry to Singapore and their living accommodations.

Straits Times reported that Ang's first pub, Tokyo Drift, was established in 2009 in the popular Orchard Road area. He eventually built six others in the area and two more in Cuppage Plaza by August 2013.

The Singaporean faces more charges than his Filipino wife, with 232 charges for "procure women for the purpose of prostitution, abetting with others to harbour the women, and living off their immoral earnings and managing brothels."

Asia One reported that Asuncion was Ang's second wife, bearing him three more children in addition to Ang's six children with his previous wife. —Rie Takumi/KBK, GMA News

Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/383020/pinoyabroad/crime/pinay-made-1-08m-in-singapore-by-luring-kababayans-into-sex-work