Police have arrested the CEO and 39 male employees of a soapland chain which employed 635 girls and banked $125 million over the last 2 years, after they were deemed to have fell foul of an obscure zoning technicality.
Police arrested the 67-year-old CEO of Tokyo-based “Sun World Holdings” along with 39 male employees on suspicion of violating prostitution control laws. They have announced they will be prosecuting 21 of them.
According to police, the company had 635 female employees (none of whom faced any police action) and had generated approximately $125,000,000 (10 billion yen) in revenue over the past two and a half years.
The arrest stems from a single charge of knowingly providing prostitution related services on the 27th, which the CEO admits.
As with most brothel-related police actions, the crackdown seem to have been based on an obscure legal technicality – the company operated 8 of its “soapland” brothels in areas which the police had forbidden to brothels (which are required to register with police, and pay them certain undisclosed fees) in 1985.
They had been allowed to continue business in these locations due to their “vested rights” – existing brothels could continue in place, but new establishments were not allowed.
However, the brothel chain in question had conducted a merger with another brothel operator in 2009, and police belatedly decided that the newly merged company, “Orange Group,” had lost its “vested rights” when it started operating under the new structure, making many of establishments illegal and putting it in violation of a number of laws for the period.
Given the belated and rather tortuous nature of the sudden prosecution, there is some suspicion that the protection racket-like relationship police enjoy with brothels broke down behind the scenes, as well as a certain amount of dismay that police would arrest the entire male staff of a company without so much as questioning a single female employee, let alone arresting one.
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certain undisclosed fees = bribes
“which are required to register with police, and pay them certain undisclosed fees”
or you stop with the bribes, we shut you down lol
Obviously, the girls face no prosecution even though they’re the actual prostitutes, because they’re not the ones expected to pay the bribes.
Yakuza threaten to rough you up and obstruct business if you don’t pay up, the police just raid and arrest everyone in the business.
Lesson here: If you own a set of soaplands, make sure to pay actual bribes to the police chief (above and beyond the “legal bribes” classified as fees) and have it on camera. Good also to toss in a free threesome with two of your best girls, also on camera. Make sure they know you have this on file somewhere they can’t raid, and count your money. Repeat immediately when a new chief is hired.
Both sides are just being dumb here. It’s well known that soaplands in banned zones operate under grandfather clauses. The moment you change ownership, you lose it. Stupid move. On the other hand, the police arrested all the male employees and plan to prosecute half of them when they can hardly be responsible the zoning compliance of their employer. I.e. this is the police acting arbitrarily, probably for money.
The shame in all this is you’d think soaplands would have the police by the balls with the legal bribes being paid, except hat soaplands make so much fucking money they’d rather pay any penalty than shut down. Compare $125 million to the $1-$5 million a high end strip club in the US might rake in a year.