Hotelier accused of pimping

A LARNACA hotel owner was remanded for two days yesterday on suspicion of pimping.

Her arrest came following a police sting operation.

The Larnaca court heard police had given marked £10 notes to a hotel customer to have sex at the hotel with a woman who was suspected of using the premises for prostitution.

According to investigating officer Antonis Kakouris from Larnaca CID, police found three of the notes in the possession of a woman from Belarus who was staying at the hotel, and one note at the reception desk.

Hotel owner Rebecca Kazamia, 56, was arrested on suspicion of pimping and taken to court yesterday.

Kakouris said Kazamia and her daughter claimed the money was theirs, but he produced for the court photocopies of the notes that police had given to the man involved.

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