Prostitute bar on Wuding Road cracked down upon

An illegal "black bar" on Wuding Road which provided erotic encounters for foreigners was cracked down upon recently, thepaper.cn reported.



According to Jing'an District People's Court, the venue had been recruiting prostitutes from other provinces as well as selling inferior liquor since it first opened in February.



The bar had clearly delineated roles for its employees, with one assigned to bait foreigners inside, one assigned to pair them up with a prostitute, one assigned to extort them for more money than originally agreed on, and one to secretly follow the customer afterward to make sure he didn't go to the police.



Through this clever method, over the past few months the gang of criminals netted over 44,000 yuan ($6,542) from naive foreign customers who fell for the scam. The 10 individuals involved were sentenced from one year to three years in prison.





