Prostitution ring with 70 women to be targeted

SEARCH and arrest operations are planned for Dublin, Cork and Galway in relation to an alleged prostitution ring involving 70 Hungarian women.

Details of the alleged trafficking crimes emerged from a court hearing in Belfast earlier this week which found that women had allegedly been brought to Dublin and Belfast under the guise of working in a restaurant.

Belfast Magistrates Court heard the Hungarian embassy had contacted the Metropolitan Police about a woman who had gone to work in a restaurant but allegedly had been forced into a brothel to work as a prostitute.