SINGAPORE: From the outside, there is nothing out of the ordinary about this ground-floor flat in Woodlands fronted by a cream door, which anyone could walk past and miss.
But step inside, and it is teeming with tell-tale signs of paid sex, much like a brothel.
The house is so dim that you look around for a light switch, only to realise that the lights are already turned on, but their glare has been intentionally muted.
In the living room, only one bulb from a chandelier casts a dim orange glow. In the rooms, the ceiling lights are spray-painted black.
Almost double the size of a four-room flat, the apartment is illegally partitioned to accommodate more rooms and business.
The living room is devoid of furniture, except for a dining table laden with sauces and dips and a half-drunk cup of juice.
There are seven rooms, four of which were used for prostitution. Gold-plated numbers mark the doors, with revised numbers on post-its stuck beside them.
VICE ACTIVITIES IN HEARTLANDS
In one of the rooms, four women sit side by side under the watchful eye of a female police officer.
They are all dressed up, but have their heads bowed after being caught in a vice raid on Oct 25.
Their faces cannot be captured, to keep their identities confidential.
They are among six foreign nationals who were arrested that day in two vice raids in Woodlands.
The women who were arrested appear to be part of a growing trend. The police have observed that vice activities are moving to residential estates, as operators use online platforms to advertise and solicit for clients.
A tour of the rooms gets confusing, as they start to look the same save for the colours of the bedsheets, which lay rumpled.
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