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Couple made $1 million in 4 years from 9 sleazy pubs
Published on Oct 10, 2014 9:03 AM
Singaporean pub owner Ang Boon Seng and his Filipino wife Ylarde Anne Asuncion earned about $1.08 million from their nine pubs within four years, between 2009 and 2013. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Bryna Singh
SINGAPORE - A Singaporean pub owner and his Filipino wife earned about $1.08 million from their nine pubs within four years, between 2009 and 2013.
While this was in part because of pub owner Ang Boon Seng's efforts and experience in the industry, about 40 per cent of the earnings was made illegally by providing sexual services in his pubs, which were located in two Orchard Road buildings.
Customers could obtain oral sex among other services inside the pubs, as long as they bought a certain number of overpriced "ladies drinks" - each costing $22 to $55. Customers could also pay a "bar fine" of at least $200 to take a woman out for activities, which usually included sexual intercourse, The New Paper reported.
Ang, 40, and his wife Ylarde Anne Asuncion, a 31-year-old Singapore permanent resident, together with 17 other accomplices, procured women from the Philippines to provide these sexual services.
Asuncion would help her husband bring in the women when she returned home. When the women agreed to work as "performing artists" in the pubs, she would brief them about the job's requirements.
The women would be told that they were bound to a "debt" that needed to be fulfilled, before they could get paid. To pay off these so-called debts, the women had to provide sexual services. If they were interested, Asuncion would then arrange for them to fly to Singapore.
Some 55 women in total were employed by Ang to work in his pubs, and Ang said his profits could reach $60,000 on good months, according to The New Paper.
Managers were hired to help him run the pubs, and Ang installed closed-circuit television cameras in and around the pubs which transmitted live feeds to his office. This not only allowed him to monitor what was happening, but also enabled him to inform his managers if he spotted police officers. The managers would then tell the women to stop performing sexual acts.
Ang opened his first pub, Tokyo Drift, in Orchard Plaza in June 2009. By August 2013, he had eight other pubs to his name - six others in Orchard Plaza and two in Cuppage Plaza. The New Paper's checks on Thursday night revealed that most, if not all of the pubs have since closed down.
Ang faces 232 charges in total, and is awaiting sentencing for abetting with others to procure women for the purpose of prostitution, abetting with others to harbour the women, and living off their immoral earnings and managing brothels. His wife is also awaiting sentencing for six charges of procuring women for the purpose of prostitution and one count of living off immoral earnings. They are expected to be sentenced on Monday.
SINGAPORE - He is reportedly the brains behind one of Singapore's largest prostitution rings, with nine nightclubs along Orchard Road and 55 prostitutes under his wing.
In four years, from 2009 to last year, he and his wife made more than a million.
But the long arm of the law has caught up with Ang Boon Seng, 40, and his Philippine wife, Ylarde Anne Asuncion, 31.
Yesterday, they pleaded guilty and will be sentenced next week, Lianhe Wanbao reported.
Ang faces over 230 vice-related charges and seven Manpower Ministry charges. The charges relate to him getting people to recruit prostitutes, running an illegal brothel and living off prostitutes.
Last year, at about 11pm on Aug 13, the police's Criminal Investigation Department received information pointing to illegal prostitution activities in Orchard Plaza and Cuppage Plaza.
The police then raided nine nightclubs and brought down one of Singapore's biggest prostitution rings, Wanbao reported. Police arrested 68 people, including Ang.
Investigations revealed that he started a pub in June 2009, and in four years opened nine nightclubs in the Orchard Road area, operating illegal activities.
Through a Philippine agent, he brought in 55 women to Singapore as "entertainment performers" or tourists, to ply the prostitution trade.
Ang admitted that his nightclub business would bring in more than $344,000 a month and his monthly net profit could be between $27,000 and $60,000.
In the last four years, he got $1.08 million, of which 40 per cent came from the prostitutes' service fees. Ang's nine bank accounts were frozen after he was arrested.
He had 18 accomplices and they have been charged, including his wife. He got to know her in 2003 and they were married in August 2009.
She would then frequently travel to the Philippines to look for women interested in earning money to come to Singapore as "entertainment performers".
To dupe the authorities, she would sometimes pretend to be the women's sisters and fly back to Singapore with them.
Ang has six children and has married twice. His Philippine wife is his second and bore him three kids.
Elena Chong The Straits Times Monday, Oct 13, 2014
SINGAPORE - Ang, who had admitted to 43 vice-related charges and seven brought by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), was fined a total of $98,000 on the MOM charges of demanding money from the Filipino women as a condition of their employment.
Get the full story from The Straits Times.
Girls hid sex acts with smokescreen
By Ronald Loh, The New Paper
Published on Oct 10, 2014
In four years, he made more than a million dollars from his nine pubs in two Orchard Road buildings.
But about 40 per cent of that money was made illegally by providing sexual services in the pubs.
His customers had to buy a certain number of "ladies drinks" at inflated prices to qualify for such services as oral sex inside the joints.
They could also pay a "bar fine" of at least $200 to take a woman out for activities that usually included sexual intercourse.
To provide these sexual services, pub owner Ang Boon Seng and his 18 accomplices, including his wife, procured women from the Philippines.
Ang, 40, is awaiting sentencing for abetting with others to procure women for the purpose of prostitution, abetting with others to harbour the women, living off their immoral earnings and managing brothels.
He faced 232 charges in total, with 189 taken into consideration and six earlier discharged amounting to acquittal.
His wife, Ylarde Anne Asuncion, a 31-year-old Singapore permanent resident from the Philippines, is also awaiting sentencing for six charges of procuring women for the purpose of prostitution and one count of living off immoral earnings.
They pleaded guilty in August.
Court documents revealed that Ang opened his first pub, Tokyo Drift, in Orchard Plaza in June 2009.
Based on his efforts and experience in the industry, the business prospered and by August 2013, he had opened another eight.
