Date: August 23, 2013
Source: The China Post
Taiwan police and immigration officers yesterday busted a human trafficking ring, arresting 11 suspects on suspicion of forcing foreign women into prostitution.
The law enforcement officers broke into a building in Chiayi with a forklift and rescued 10 Indonesian women who were being held captivethere, according to the Tainan District Prosecutors Office.
The authorities arrested one Indonesian and 10 Taiwanese suspects across several locations in the southern counties of Chiayi and Tainan and seized a gas gun, account books and six packets of drugs, the prosecutors' office said.
It said the traffickers were using the women to provide sex services to clients and charging NT$3,000 (US$100) to NT$5,000 per transaction.
Absconding female Indonesian workers in northern Taiwan were be ingrecruited by a member of the ring, who is also an Indonesian woman,the office said.
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