Fahd Al-Manaee

Saudi Gazette



MAKKAH — The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) nabbed an Arab expatriate who managed a prostitution ring using overstaying women of various nationalities, the Haia said in a statement on Sunday.



It did not name the foreigner or specify his country of origin but said he was caught red-handed in an apartment at  Al-Hindawiyah district of the holy city.



The Haia said it received information that a foreigner was running a prostitution ring comprising a number of illegal foreign women.



The Haia set up an ambush and caught him in an immoral act with a foreign woman in the apartment and handed them both over to the police station at Al-Mansour district.



After receiving the tip-off, the Haia set up a plan to catch the foreigner at the weekend when he was expected to arrange a series of rendezvous.



Members of the Haia had the apartment under surveillance for several days before raiding it to arrest the man and the foreign woman with him.