Breaking a shocking case involving many models and singers participating in high-priced prostitution
The ringleaders are makeup artists, personal style consultants (stylists), and prostitution brokers in the showbiz world in the form of "Sextours" in major cities at home and abroad.
On November 3, the Criminal Police Department announced that the Investigation Police Agency of the Ministry of Public Security has issued a decision to prosecute the criminal case of "Prostitution Brokerage"; the decisions to prosecute 3 defendants and have been approved by the Supreme People's Procuracy for: Huynh Thanh Thuan (born in 1990), residing in District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, is a makeup artist, personal style consultant (stylist); Pham Do Nhat Duy (born in 1985), residing in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City and Le Thi Thu Thao (born in 1985), residing in Rach Gia City, Kien Giang Province for the crime of "Prostitution Brokerage".
Police read the arrest warrant for Huynh Thanh Thuan.
Through documents from the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency, from basic professional work and area management, the Criminal Police Department discovered that in the Vietnamese showbiz world, prostitution brokerage and buying and selling activities still take place in many forms with sophisticated methods and tricks, causing negative impacts on Vietnam's cultural traditions.
From 2020 to present, the Criminal Police Department has established, successfully fought and destroyed many prostitution brokerage cases, prostitutes are contestants participating in beauty pageants, supermodels, actors, famous singers... Prostitution brokers are often people directly related to showbiz such as: show organizers, managers, makeup artists, personal style consultants; at the same time, it is determined that prostitution brokerage in the form of "sextour" still exists. The price of prostitution can be up to thousands of USD/tour, depending on the time and location of prostitution in the country or abroad.
Subjects Thuan, Duy and Thao at the police station.
The Criminal Police Department has applied professional measures and discovered that Huynh Thanh Thuan has shown signs of prostitution brokerage activities in the showbiz world in the form of "Sextour" in major cities at home and abroad.
Immediately afterwards, the Criminal Police Department directed the Department of Prevention and Investigation of Social Evils (Department 4) to establish a special project to apply synchronous professional measures, coordinate with units to verify, collect documents, and fight to eradicate.
Based on the collected case documents, on October 24, the Criminal Police Department presided over and coordinated with the Criminal Police Department, Ba Ria - Vung Tau Provincial Police to administratively inspect a high-class resort in Xuyen Moc District, Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, discovering 3 couples of men and women engaging in prostitution.
Among them, the prostitutes were VTTT (model, hot Tiktoker), HPTH (model, hot Facebooker) and LHP (model, beauty queen of Asia). At the same time, they stopped a couple of men and women who had completed exit procedures at Tan Son Nhat airport to go to Singapore to buy and sell sex under the guise of traveling abroad and the prostitute was identified as TTL (singer).
Based on collected documents and evidence, the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency summoned and urgently searched the residences of Huynh Thanh Thuan, Pham Do Nhat Duy, and Le Thi Thu Thao for prostitution brokerage.
The girls involved in prostitution were invited to the police headquarters for questioning.
At the Investigation Agency, the statements of Thuan, Thao, Duy and related subjects and collected documents and evidence determined: These subjects have been operating as prostitution brokers since the beginning of 2023. During this process, Thuan, Thao, and Duy brokered for many prostitutes and customers, illegally profiting hundreds of millions of dong.
On October 24th, after someone wanted to buy sex from young, beautiful prostitutes working in showbiz, Huynh Ngoc Thuan introduced TTL, LHP and HTMH as models, beauty queens and singers working in Vietnamese showbiz, often appearing in the media, with a large following on social networks, to sell sex.
Thuan agreed with the buyer on the price for each prostitute, which was from 60 million VND to 100 million VND/domestic tour (2 days) and 6,000 USD/international tour (2 days). Through investigation, the police determined that Thuan, Thao, and Duy received 112 million VND as a prostitution brokerage fee.
Currently, the case is being further investigated and related subjects are being handled according to the provisions of law.