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Feb 9, 2009
Brothel operator jailed <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong
</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> A 67-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for six months and fined $10,000 on Monday for managing a brothel in Geylang. Yew Seng In pleaded guilty earlier to managing a house at Jalan Suka as a brothel between Aug 1, 2006 and Sept 16 last year. A district court heard that he rented the house in 2006 to set up a hostel to allow prostitutes to engage in vice activities. He would charge the prostitutes $5 for each short-time transaction. Yew, who has a similar conviction, could have been fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed for up to five years for the offence.
Feb 9, 2009
Brothel operator jailed <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong
</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> A 67-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for six months and fined $10,000 on Monday for managing a brothel in Geylang. Yew Seng In pleaded guilty earlier to managing a house at Jalan Suka as a brothel between Aug 1, 2006 and Sept 16 last year. A district court heard that he rented the house in 2006 to set up a hostel to allow prostitutes to engage in vice activities. He would charge the prostitutes $5 for each short-time transaction. Yew, who has a similar conviction, could have been fined up to $10,000 and/or jailed for up to five years for the offence.