Three erotic massage parlour operators to be charged with running bawdy house

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From the [URL="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Three+erotic+massage+parlour+operators+charged+with/9228057/story.html"]Montreal Gazette[/URL],
BY ANNE SUTHERLAND, THE GAZETTE NOVEMBER 29, 2013

MONTREAL â?? The operators of three erotic massage parlours will be in Montreal court on Friday afternoon to face charges of keeping a bawdy house and procurement.

Officers from the RCMP, Montreal police and Canada Border Services Agency were involved in the investigation and subsequent arrests.

The three were arrested in raids Thursday night at the Spa Angel on Wellington St. in Verdun, Massage du Centre on Centre St. and Centre Maxi Santé on Hymus Blvd. in Dorval.

The arrested are all women: Li Wang, 53, Yi Zhang, 38 and Dong Bai, 39.

During the raids, one client on site at the time was arrested and subsequently released on a promise to appear in court Feb. 4, 2014. His charge is having been found in a bawdy house.

These massage parlours came to the attention of law enforcement officers while they were pursuing the case of Marius Trifu Miclescu, charged last months with human trafficking for his part in a system that lured Romanian women to Canada and then forced them to work as sex slaves in erotic massage parlours. Six others have been charged with human trafficking.

The three parlours were all cited as places where women under the control of Miclescu were allegedly exploited.

Sergeant Maxime St-Sleur with the RCMP said the investigation is ongoing.