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Police Open Brothel, Crack Down to Make Cash
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Police in China's eastern province of
Jiangsu found a novel way to fill their pockets with cash: They
opened a brothel, arrested the customers and ``fined'' them.
With seed money of 6,000 yuan ($725), Lishui County police
substation deputy chief Gao Mingliang set up operations in a
brothel disguised as a restaurant in May last year, Shanghai's
Xinmin Evening News reported on Monday.
Prostitutes would entice their customers into the back
rooms. After a while, the police would raid the rooms, arrest
the customers, haul them down to the police substation and fine
them, it said.
``Depending on how much money the police station pulled in,
they would issue a performance bonus to the girls,'' the paper
said.
Between May and August last year, the bureau racked up more
than 80,000 yuan through the scheme.
The Lishui County police plan unraveled when a neighboring
police substation arrested the man listed as owning the
restaurant and sentenced him to a year in a labor camp for
running a brothel, it said.
Upset after a year of hard labor, the man sent a petition to
high level officials who uncovered Gao's scam, the paper said.
Gao later confessed and in September a Nanjing District
Court sentenced him to one year in prison for abusing his
authority. |
