A PROSTITUTION ring masterminded by a foreigner has been busted in an operation conducted in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor on February 9.

Immigration director-general Khairul Dzaimee Daud said three entertainment centres and transit houses were raided.

He said 36 people – 27 Indonesian women, two Vietnamese women, four Thai women and a Bangladeshi customer, along with two local men working as caretakers – were arrested.

“The intelligence we have gathered indicated that the ring was led by an Indonesian woman called ‘Mummy’. She acted as a madam, managing and tending to the foreign women engaged in prostitution at several of the entertainment centres,” Khairul said in a statement today.

“The ring managed to rake in an estimated profit of about RM2.8 million from the illicit activities.”

Some of those arrested were found to possess social visit passes, student passes or documents linked to the work recalibration programme.

Checks revealed that the stamps for social visit passes were fake.

The foreigners are being detained at the Semenyih immigration depot. – Bernama, February 11, 2023.