A Thai-Finnish couple aged around 60 years old is suspected of running a prostitution ring spanning six cities in Finland operating since 2014.
The Helsinki police department has wrapped up its investigation and handed the case over to the Western Finland’s prosecutor’s office.
The woman allegedly sub-letted Thai massage shops in the six cities of Joensuu, Kuopio, Mikkeli, Jyvaskyla, Kokkola, and Seinajoki to Thai sex workers who sold sex services inside business premises, which the two main suspects reaped financial benefits from, reports Scandasia.
While prostitution (the exchange of sexual acts for money) is not a crime in Finland, buying or selling sex services in a public place and operating a brothel or other forms of pimping are illegal. As is buying sex from a victim of human trafficking.
On Friday, the lead investigator in the case said…
“The suspects knew that…
