Police have arrested two females and a male for alleged involvement in illegal prostitution inside a beauty salon in Addu City.
A police spokesperson confirmed that the three were arrested last night and that two females were from Thailand and the man was a Maldivian.
‘’They were arrested last night around 9:30pm during a special operation conducted following a report,’’ a police spokesperson said, confirming the arrests were made on Gan.
He declined to provide further information.
Local media reported that the owner of the beauty salon has also been arrested.
Addu Councilors Hussain Hilmee and Hussain Fahmy both said they did not have any additional information regarding the incident.
However, local media SunFM – which recently investigated illegal prostitution in the Maldives – reported that the three were arrested inside a salon in Addu while they were engaged in sexual activity.
The news outlet also reported that a 17 year-old girl was working as a receptionist at the salon.
Recently, the Maldives Media Council (MMC) called on the editors of Sun Online and Sun magazine to issue a public apology following the publication of a series of stories in which journalists wrote detailed and lurid accounts of their visit to an illegal brothel.
The Sun’s investigation of illegal prostitution in the Maldives revealed that ‘massage’ and medical treatment centers were being used a front for Male’s sex industry.
The Sun journalists who patronised the salons had ‘massages’ and reported that illegal prostitution was conducted widely and freely inside such places.
Some salons offered them group sex, while most provided a list of available girls with ‘special features’ for different prices.
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