A rapid sweep of the Dongguan area which is apparently a red-light district has ensnared both corrupt officials and hoteliers. In a four-month operation, police detained 661 suspects. A total of 43 civil servants were punished for dereliction of duty or shielding the sex business. Yan Xiaokang, vice mayor and police chief of Dongguan, was removed from his post on February 14, 2014.
Liang Yaohui, former deputy to the National People’s Congress and owner of the five-star Crown Prince Hotel, was one of four people to deny the charges of organizing prostitution while 43 hotel employees pled guilty. The court heard that the hotel’s sauna center had made about 49 million yuan (US$7.9million) in profit in 2013 from organizing prostitution that included underage prostitutes. It begun to offer sex services in 2004. It had 99 such rooms in the sauna center and about 100 prostitutes, according to a report on the People’s Daily website.
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Momentary Lapse Of Sanity 