12 held in multimillion-dollar porn video crackdown
Triad-linked syndicate made more than HK$20m in past four years, police say
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 24 April, 2014, 2:29pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 24 April, 2014, 4:52pm
Clifford Lo [email protected]
Police said some of the porn syndicate arrests were made at the Lok Ma Chau border checkpoint. Photo: Felix Wong
Police have arrested 12 people in a crackdown against a triad-linked multimillion-dollar pornographic video racket.
Officers seized 554 CD writers, two computers and seven printers together with 9,200 obscene discs and 8,000 blank discs in the operation last night. The haul is understood to be worth HK$500,000.
The 12 men were netted when detectives raided a number of locations including the syndicate’s alleged manufacturing and packaging centre in Kwai Chung and two outlets in Tsuen Wan.
Police said some of the arrests were made at the Lok Ma Chau border checkpoint.
The syndicate has made more than HK$20 million from its pornographic business in the past three to four years, police believe.
Investigations showed the two industrial units in Kwai Chung were used as a manufacturing and packaging centre, Chief Inspector Suen Suet-ying of the New Territories South regional crime unit said.
“Hired delivery vans were used to deliver finished products to its various outlets in Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po, Wan Chai and Tsuen Wan,” she said.
A total of 12 men, aged from 19 to 59, were rounded up in the operation. Officers believe one of them was the alleged mastermind of the syndicate.
According to police, the suspects included two illegal immigrants from the mainland and one mainland visitor. The trio was allegedly recruited by the syndicate to produce pornographic discs in the manufacturing and packaging centre in Kwai Chung.
All the suspects are being held for questioning.
