'Like a jail': Singapore club operator trafficked women from India, made them work without pay

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SINGAPORE - The operator of an entertainment club has been jailed for 41 months and fined $27,365 for trafficking three women who were hired as dancers. In a statement on Tuesday (April 19), the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said that Jaiho Club operator Alagar Balasubramanian, 47, imposed financial demands that the women would not be able to repay if they...

Alagar Balasubramanian imposed financial demands that the women would not be able to repay if they wished to quit.SINGAPORE - The operator of an entertainment club has been jailed for 41 months and fined $27,365 for trafficking three women who were hired as dancers.

Balasubramanian also seized their passports, work permits and mobile phones and threatened to hurt them if they returned to India without his approval.It added that all three women have since returned to India. Balasubramanian recruited the women from their villages in India, and knew that they would be susceptible to his coercion, said the prosecution.One of them said: “ is like a big jail. Once you are caught in his clutches, you can only leave when he releases you. You just have to go along with him, and only if he likes you he’ll take good care of you... Otherwise, he will torture you and reduce you to nothing.

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