Taipei police on Saturday arrested 24 female Thai tourists for working as hostesses and engaging in illegal activities at an underground bar in Zhongshan District, the police precinct in the district said in a statement Sunday.
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Six police charged with corruption
BRIBERY PROBE: The latest indictments brought the number of accused police officers to eight in a case that has also embroiled several nightclubs in Taipei
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Taipei prosecutors yesterday indicted six police officers as well as five executives and staff from nightclubs in Taipei’s Zhongshan District (中山) in a probe into alleged corruption, where the officers are accused of taking bribes to protect a sex trade business.
The officers were charged with “taking bribes in breach of official duties” and related offenses, as well as contravening the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例), the prosecutors said.
Five detained, 12 indicted in sex trade case
SEXUAL SERVICES, BRIBES: Officers in Taipei’s Zhongshan Police Precinct allegedly implicated in the case have ‘brought dishonor to the profession,’ prosecutors said
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Three nightclub executives were detained yesterday after prosecutors on Friday indicted 12 people, including police officers who allegedly accepted bribes and sex services from businesses in Taipei.
Taipei prosecutors listed several officers from the Zhongshan Police Precinct as suspects in the case.
They are accused of accepting more than NT$5 million (US$176,641 at the current exchange rate) between them in bribes from the proprietor of businesses in the area of Linsen N and Zhongshan N roads from 2013 to 2017, prosecutors said.