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Report from The STAR dated Monday 15 March 2010 :-

GROs lose cat-and-mouse game

JOHOR BARU : For an hour, several foreign guest relations officers (GROs) played cat-and-mouse with the authorities, resorting to climbing down a balcony from the fourth floor and later hiding underneath cars in a desperate attempt to evade arrest.

Their attempts were in vain as as they were eventually caught.

Acting on a tip-off, Immigration officers raided an entertainment outlet in Taman Mount Austin here at about 11pm on Friday and detained four Indonesian women working as GROs, while five others escaped to a nearby condominium some 2km away.

The enforcement officers tracked them down at the condominium and detained two women as they were running up the stairs, while three others entered a unit on the fourth floor.

Upon entering the unit, the Immigration officers were puzzled as the place was empty.

Other residents then alerted the officers when they saw the women climbing down from the balcony.

Other enforcement officers waiting on the ground floor quickly tracked down the women who were hiding underneath a few cars.

Johor Immigration department enforcement chief Masri Adul said nine women from Indonesia and the Philippines, aged between 21 and 29, were detained.

“Some of these women are very cunning and resourceful. They climbed down the balcony without any rope or cloth in their attempt to escape,” he said.

Masri added the women were detained under the Immigration Act 1963 for violating their visitor’s pass.

He added to date, more than 30 women from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam had been detained in multiple raids this year for working as GROs.
--- KatoeyNewsNetWork

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Report from The STAR dated Sunday 21 March 2010 :-

JB Police Detain 12 Filipino GROs in raids

JOHOR BARU : A 30-year-old Bangladeshi illegal worker hid inside a restaurant’s water tank for three hours in an attempt to evade the authorities.

He was among 30 illegal foreign workers, including 12 Filipino women who were working as guest relations officers (GROs), detained in raids on entertainment outlets and restaurants on Friday night.

Johor Immigration Department enforcement chief Masri Adul said his personnel raided an entertainment outlet in Taman Nusa Bestari 2/1 at 9.30pm on Friday and detained the 12 women aged between 22 and 37 along with a man, in his 30s, who was their so-called manager.

"At the time, all the women were busy attending to customers. None of them was aware that the place was being raided."

“We will step up operations against all illegal foreign workers. They will be sent to our depot in Pekan Nenas before being deported to their home countries,” he said.
--- KatoeyNewsNetWork

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Report from The STAR dated Wednesday 24 March 2010 :-

Foreign GROs caught having sex with clients in Penang hotel

GEORGE TOWN : Two foreign women who worked as guest relations officers were arrested after they were caught having sex with two male clients in a hotel in Burma Road here.

The women, a Chinese national and a Vietnamese, were so engrossed in the act that they were not aware that a state anti-vice team had entered the premises at 11.45pm on Monday.

Nineteen other women, in their 20s and 30s and also from China and Vietnam, and 15 men were also arrested. The men were released after their statements and particulars were taken down.

The team led by Chief Insp Salawati Saad also detained four men said to be the hotel caretakers.

One of them, a man in his 50s from Johor, was on the police wanted list.

State CID chief Senior Asst Comm (II) Wan Abdullah Tuanku Said, said condoms and cash believed to be proceeds from the vice activities were seized.

He added that the foreign women were in the state as tourists.

On March 15, police busted a major vice syndicate on the mainland following the arrest of eight people, including four Thai women and their two pimps, in two separate raids on a motel in Jalan Simpang Ampat, Nibong Tebal, and Jalan Bukit Minyak, Bukit Mertajam.

A couple, who were owners of the motel in Nibong Tebal, were arrested.

The syndicate, which had been active for about two months, was able to rake in almost RM70,000 monthly by charging RM150 for each session with the women.

Other than condoms and tubes of lubricants, the police team also seized a samurai sword, several notebooks that recorded the day’s takings and contact numbers of regular customers and syndicate members.--- KatoeyNewsNetWork

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Report from The STAR dated Friday 26 March 2010 :-


16 years-old China teen caught having sex with client in hotel raid

GEORGE TOWN : Police rescued a 16-year-old Chinese national in a raid of a Butterworth hotel, where she and four other Chinese women were caught naked with their clients.

The are believed to have been trafficked here for sexual exploitation.

All of them were taken to the Bukit Mertajam police station following the 11.30pm raid on Thursday. The men were released after being questioned.

In the raid led by Chief Insp Salawati Saad, police seized RM3,512 in cash and recovered a sizeable number of condoms, antiseptic mouthwash, lubricants, towels, tissues and notebooks recording the earnings.

The raiding party also found used condoms strewn in several hotel rooms, in the operation codenamed Ops Noda/ Ops Pintas.

Also arrested was a 39-year-old hotel caretaker who was busy counting the day’s earnings at the hotel’s counter. He had since been remanded under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code to facilitate police investigations.

Penang CID chief Senior Asst Comm Wan Abdullah Tuanku Said said the 16-year-old girl would be sent to a shelter home in Kuala Lumpur.

He said her case was being investigated under Section 14 of the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2007.

He said the other four Chinese nationals, aged between 26 and 28, would be remanded for 14 days under the Immigration Act for violation of social visit passes.

ACP Wan Abdullah said initial investigations revealed that the prostitution syndicate had been in operation for months and could have raked in close to RM100,000 monthly, with RM200 charged for each sexual service.

The arrests come on the heels of three earlier vice raids at motels in the state where 25 Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai women were caught. Also arrested were 15 male patrons, two pimps and a couple who owned a motel in Nibong Tebal where one of the raids was conducted.
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork