Police search for second pimping suspect

POLICE were yesterday searching for a second man in connection with a suspected case of pimping of an underage girl.

On Sunday, Limassol district court had remanded 44-year-old pub owner Cleanthis ‘Athos’ Cleanthous for eight days. Wanted pub manager George Athanasiou, 40, is still large.

Police raided Cleanthous’ Limassol pub on Saturday night, days after cabaret and bar owners had called upon Justice Minister Nicos Koshis to be lenient with laws limiting their employment of foreign women.

The raid uncovered a 15-year-old foreign girl being employed at the pub who, in her testimony to police, said she had been staying with the two men and that they had been hiring her out to customers for sex.

Cleanthous has admitted to employing the minor and giving her somewhere to stay, but denies allegations of pimping for her.

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