A Taipei City councilor yesterday alleged that a man claiming to be a police officer from the Criminal Division of Taipei Municipal Police Department arrested two Chinese prostitutes and blackmailed the brothel where they worked.
"Most Chinese prostitutes enter Taiwan using fake marriage documents," DPP City Councilor Lo Tsung-sheng (
PHOTO: LIAO RAY-SHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
"Since they're illegal, when they are caught by the police working as prostitutes, most of them will say `yes' to whatever the police ask."
The councilor, making the allegation at a press conference yesterday, showed a videotape shot in August of closed-circuit TV footage from a hotel.
On the tape, which has no sound, a man with a ponytail and sunglasses is seen following a woman into a hotel elevator.
The elevator remains stationary but about 30 seconds later the two are seen walking out of it again. As they do so another woman approaches the elevator.
Before the second woman can enter the elevator, the man shows them a badge, before leaving in a taxi with both women.
Lo said that the man then called the individual who allegedly supplied the prostitutes to the hotel a few minutes later and demanded NT$60,000. Lo said that they eventually agreed on NT$50,000.
"I don't know this guy who claimed to be one of us," said Chiu Feng-kwang (
Asked who had informed him of the case, Lo said that the person who supplied the video footage and information wished to remain anonymous.
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