A Singaporean man (extreme left, in white) arrested by local police at a beauty centre in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Jan 30. - SCREENGRAB OF FOOTAGE PROVIDED BY KAOHSIUNG POLICE DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man, 49, on a business trip to Taiwan was arrested by local police during a raid on Jan 30 after allegedly patronising sexual services at a beauty salon.
Local police took a search warrant to the beauty salon located at Datong 1st Road in the southern city of Kaohsiung, after receiving a report the centre was offering commercial sexual services illegally at its premises.
During the raid at around 2.40pm, officers from the Kaohsiung Police Department’s Xinxing precinct caught a Singaporean man surnamed Ho in a private room with a 42-year-old woman employed by the salon who had provided him sexual services, local police said.
Body camera footage from by the police shows a partially clothed woman answering the door when an officer knocks, while the man said to be Ho is inside the room.
The police added that Ho had sought the beauty centre and its services on the recommendation of locals. The beauty centre located within a commercial building is well-known among locals for its illicit offerings, Taiwanese media reported.
Apart from Ho, the police nabbed two other salon staff and two Taiwanese male customers, aged 49 and 63, during the same raid.
The salon’s three female employees, aged between 40 and 53, are Vietnamese citizens with residency status in Taiwan, United Daily News reported.
Another man surnamed Lin who appeared to be running the beauty centre was also arrested. The police said Lin, 33, was acting as an agent for the woman and took half of their NT$1,800 (S$77) fee from each paying customer as commission.
Lin was charged with obstructing moral decency, while the other six were charged with violating social order. - The Straits Times/ANN
