KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia police on Friday reported to have rescued four women believed to be victims of human trafficking and sold into the sex trade industry in Penang. The police report said they raided an entertainment center in Jalan Anson early in the morning, where the women were discovered. The four women, described as foreigners, are aged between 17- and 26-years-old. Bukit Aman D7 operation chief Supt Amir Rasid Derani said the three-hour operation ended at 3am and rescued three Vietnamese women and a Chinese woman who entered the country legally. He said based on intelligence and public information, police detected a human exploitation syndicate for prostitution that had been active for several weeks at the premises. He said the syndicate was believed to be masterminded by a secret society gang and in the raid, police also found nine unused bullets apart from 15 packets of syabu, 30 eramin and esctasy pills and drug inhaling instruments. “Several foreign women working as guest relations officer (GRO) succeeded in fleeing through a secret passage at the back of the premises after being alerted of police presence,” he told reporters here today. Amir Rasid said police also detained 6 workers including the entertainment center manager aged between 20 and 40 years to assist in the investigation under the Anti-Human Trafficking Act and the Anti-Migrant Smuggling Act 2007. Earlier in the week, Bikyamasr.com reported a number of women, including Vietnamese nationals, being taken by police from what appeared to be another sex workers ring in the southern part of the country.
