3 Indicted For Sending Taiwan Women To Work Overseas As Hookers

Taipei prosecutors indicted three Taiwanese on Wednesday for allegedly recruiting and sending women from Taiwan to the United States and other countries to engage in prostitution, Hsiao Po-wen and Joseph Yeh reported for the Central News Agency (CNNA).

Photo Insert: The maximum sentence for the charge is five years in prison plus a NT$100,000 fine.

The three suspects, two men who were respectively surnamed Lin and Chen and a woman surnamed Lin, allegedly used social media to recruit women to go overseas to work as prostitutes, escorts, or at hostess bars by promising them high salaries in a short period of time, according to the indictment issued by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office.

The three suspects then booked flights for the women and arranged their required visas and accommodations, the indictment stated.

About 50 women, aged 25 to 35, traveled to the US, Canada, and other countries to engage in prostitution from 2018 to early 2020 under the trio's arrangements, the indictment cited investigators as saying.

The women's clients had to pay $400-$500 per hour in the US or CA$290-CA$320 (US$230-US$254) per hour in Canada, of which the women were able to keep 60 percent, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors charged the three suspects for breaching sexual morality under the Criminal Code. The maximum sentence for the charge is five years in prison plus a NT$100,000 fine.

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