Pimp jailed a month for helping to run family vice ring
Published on May 15, 2013
Leong Kum Seng (above), pleads guilty to procuring two Vietnamese women for the purposes of prostitution and helping his younger brother in managing a brothel in Geylang. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA
By Khushwant Singh
A man was jailed for a month on Wednesday for helping out in a family vice business. Leong Kum Seng, 57, pleaded guilty to procuring two Vietnamese women for the purposes of prostitution and helping his younger brother in managing a brothel in Geylang. Their sister, 59, was also involved in operating the vice ring.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Houston Johannus told a district court that the brother had rented a terrace house in Lorong 24 Geylang. He then converted it into an illegal lodging house to be used by the Vietnamese women to provide sexual services to clients.
Investigations also revealed that Leong had received two prostitutes at Changi Airport on May 11 last year. He committed the offence of procuring them for prostitution by instructing the duo to charge $26 for sex with each client. He also told them to learn the trade from the "senior girls" at the brothel.
Leong would collect $6 as rental for the room for each sexual session. He also helped his brother, Leong Kum Hoong, 54, by tidying the premises and keeping a lookout for the authorities conducting raids between March 27 and July 25.
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