売春あっせん容疑で２３人逮捕　一度の摘発人数、過去最多―警視庁

　デリバリーヘルス店の女性従業員に売春をさせたとして、警視庁保安課は１７日までに、売春防止法違反（周旋）容疑で、会社役員東岡政喜容疑者（５１）＝福岡市博多区博多駅南＝ら男２３人を逮捕した。東岡容疑者ら１１人は容疑を認め、他の１２人は否認しているという。売春のあっせんを巡り、同庁が一度に摘発した人数としては過去最多という。
　同課によると、東岡容疑者らのグループは、東京都内の五反田や新橋などで派遣型のデリヘル店を４店経営。少なくとも年約１２億円以上を売り上げていたとみられる。
　グループは店名を変えるなどして経営を続けていた。逮捕された２３人は東岡容疑者ら２人が統括責任者、３人が店長、１８人が従業員だった。
　東岡容疑者の逮捕容疑は４～５月、品川区のホテルで４０～５０代の男性客３人に対し、いずれも２０代の女性従業員を派遣した疑い。（2024/06/17-11:59）

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has arrested 23 men on suspicion of brokering female workers at a call girl business for prostitution, the largest number of people apprehended at once by the MPD over prostitution-brokering allegations, it was learned Monday.
   Eleven of the suspects, including company executive Masaki Tooka, 51, have admitted to the allegations, while the other 12 have denied them.
   According to the security division of the MPD, the group including Tooka operated four call girl stores in areas such as Tokyo's Gotanda and Shinbashi districts. Annual sales at the stores are believed to have totaled at least about 1.2 billion yen.
   The group maintained their business by changing the names of its stores. Of the 23, two including Tooka held general managerial positions, three were store managers and the rest were employees.
   Tooka is suspected of dispatching female workers in their 20s to three male customers in their 40s to 50s at a hotel in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in April to May in violation of the antiprostitution law.