Vice 'restaurant' busted in KL

Vice 'restaurant' busted in KL

KUALA LUMPUR (DPA): Police in the Malaysian capital busted a "restaurant" run by pimps which offered foreign prostitutes on the menu instead of regular meals, a news report said on Tuesday.

The Malay Mail afternoon tabloid said the pimps had opened the Fire Phoenix restaurant in the working class district of Cheras as a front for a brothel, in an attempt to fool anti-vice squads. But its cover was blown following a tip-off and police raided the fake restaurant early Sunday and arrested 41 people, including eight foreign prostitutes.

Five of the sex workers were Indonesians, two were from Uzbekistan and one was Thai. All were aged between 18 years and 25 years.

Police also arrested 26 clients and seven workers of the brothel, which occupied two floors of a four-floor shop which had a bar, karaoke lounge and four bedrooms.