Tram admitted in her statement to police that she regularly scoured bars and
discotheques in districts 1 and 3 as well as northern Vietnamese provinces for
beautiful girls to entice them to work for her ring.
Of sex workers hired by Tram, there were even university students and, wryly
enough, men who had undergone gender-conversion surgeries.
Further investigations would be continuing, the police said.
Elsewhere, the police also smashed Tuesday another prostitution ring in Rach
Gia town in southern Kien Giang province.
The ring, organized by 27-year-old Thai Thanh Long, had clandestinely carried
on prostitution activities since January 2006.
Eight people involved, including pimps and procurers, were under police custody
pending further investigations.
Prostitution is illegal in Vietnam.
