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Couple arrested for trafficking Vietnamese women into Malaysia sex ring

Thanh Nien News

TAY NINH - Friday, May 13, 2016

Authorities in the southern province of Tay Ninh have arrested a Vietnamese woman and her Malaysian boyfriend for allegedly trafficking nine women to Malaysia to do sex work.

Police said Nguyen Kim Ngan, 26 and Kim Eng Hoe, 39 found and sold Vietnamese women to a prostitution ring in Kuala Lumpur run by a Malay man known as Banh. They were paid VND3-4 million per woman, police said.

Ngan, who had done sex work at a Kuala Lumpur bar since 2013, returned to Vietnam with her boyfriend in 2014, seeking young women for Banh.

She promised the victims high-paid jobs as waitresses in beer clubs and massage parlors.

But investigators said when the women arrived in Kuala Lumpur, they had their passports taken away by Kim and forced into the prostitution ring.

Those who tried to resist would be tortured, the victims said. They have all been rescued.

Banh is still at large.

Sex work is illegal in both Malaysia and Vietnam.