Police bust prostitution ring, arrest eight suspects
08 Jun 2015, 5:31 PM
Three foreign women, four foreign men, and one Maldivian man were arrested last night after the police raided a brothel in Malé.
The police raided the Woodpecker house in the Maafanu ward of the capital around 9:00pm based on intelligence information. The suspects were engaged in prostitution when officers entered the residence, the police said in a statement.
The three foreign women were arrested on charges of prostitution and the two foreign men on suspicion of being their agents.
The two foreign men and the Maldivian man were reportedly customers.
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