Six day remand for Nancy

A NICOSIA court yesterday renewed the remand of a 43-year-old Chinese woman known as Nancy, who is suspected of involvement in a prostitution ring with Chinese immigrants busted by police last week.

Police have now identified seven women who were part of the ring, as sexual exploitation victims.

The court ordered the suspect to remain in custody for a further six days pending a police investigation.

Two other men, including a high-ranking police officer in the immigration unit, have also been detained in connection with the case.

Part of the investigative work which still remains is making sense of Nancy’s diary where a large number of financial transactions in both China and Cyprus are described by making use of pseudonyms to track clients. Transactions at financial institutions also have to be looked at and more than eighty statements need to be taken, police told the court.

The court yesterday heard again of witness statements talking of Nancy’s close collaboration with the police officer who arranged for some women to be released from prison, others to illegally enter Cyprus and also forced to have sex with him.

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