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10-01-2018, 09:15 AM
Published Jan 9, 2018, 4:33 pm SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - A married couple who made more than $600,000 from a website where vice operators could advertise sexual services were jailed and fined a total of $140,000 on Tuesday (Jan 9).
Liu Chin Guan, 36, was given 21 months and a $100,000 fine while his wife, Angela Lim Xiu Yan, 32, was sentenced to eight months and a $40,000 fine.
Liu had admitted 10 of 21 charges of abetment by intentionally aiding in living on 10 prostitutes' earnings between 2014 and 2016. Lim had pleaded guilty to four of 21 similar charges last November.
The court heard that sometime in 2011, Liu's uncle Sonny Liu engaged a web designer to set up a website to provide advertising services to vice syndicates to advertise the sexual services of their prostitutes.
Liu was asked to be a partner. Subsequently, when his uncle went missing, he became the only manager and operator of the website EZ141sg.com.
He actively advertised the website on various popular vice forums. Over time, more and more operators began advertising their prostitutes on the website. They were charged $300 a month, which they were directed to pay into a DBS Bank account.
An account and profile would be created for vice operators to upload banners, photographs and information such as the rates and profiles of the sex workers.
Lim helped to withdraw money from the DBS Bank account from the ATM, liaise with vice operators and upload banners.
Liu had offered $1,000 to a Thai national to open the account for him to hide his identity.
continue reading here : http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/couple-jailed-and-fined-after-making-more-than-600k-from-vice-website
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - A married couple who made more than $600,000 from a website where vice operators could advertise sexual services were jailed and fined a total of $140,000 on Tuesday (Jan 9).
Liu Chin Guan, 36, was given 21 months and a $100,000 fine while his wife, Angela Lim Xiu Yan, 32, was sentenced to eight months and a $40,000 fine.
Liu had admitted 10 of 21 charges of abetment by intentionally aiding in living on 10 prostitutes' earnings between 2014 and 2016. Lim had pleaded guilty to four of 21 similar charges last November.
The court heard that sometime in 2011, Liu's uncle Sonny Liu engaged a web designer to set up a website to provide advertising services to vice syndicates to advertise the sexual services of their prostitutes.
Liu was asked to be a partner. Subsequently, when his uncle went missing, he became the only manager and operator of the website EZ141sg.com.
He actively advertised the website on various popular vice forums. Over time, more and more operators began advertising their prostitutes on the website. They were charged $300 a month, which they were directed to pay into a DBS Bank account.
An account and profile would be created for vice operators to upload banners, photographs and information such as the rates and profiles of the sex workers.
Lim helped to withdraw money from the DBS Bank account from the ATM, liaise with vice operators and upload banners.
Liu had offered $1,000 to a Thai national to open the account for him to hide his identity.
continue reading here : http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/couple-jailed-and-fined-after-making-more-than-600k-from-vice-website