LA Cafe Stängt

[Tricky]

Lim padlocks LA Café for good
Some people have pulled a fast one on Mayor Alfredo Lim who closed down L.A. Café, a bar that he himself had padlocked during his term of office 10 years ago.

Manila Police officers rounded up at the club last week about 200 women together with 17 minors allegedly involved in the sex trade.

While ordering a closure, Lim instructed Chief Supt. Rodolfo Magtibay to find out how L.A. Café managed to resume operations in Malate after his administration’s drive in the 1990s to clean up the city’s red district.

“This is among those shuttered in my first incumbency. They moved to nearby localities and elsewhere to as far as Angeles City,” he said in a statement, underscoring regulations allowing entertainment only in the district without any prostitution at all.

The bar at the three-floor L.A. Café on M.H. Del Pilar corner Salas streets and an adjacent five-floor annex are reportedly owned Australians John Thorpe and Christer Bigander but managed by a certain Anselmo Candado.

Manila Social Welfare chief Jay dela Fuente said charges for human trafficking and child abuse have been filed against the principals and the bar managers identified as Emelinda Viray, Rodalyn Taja and Grace Perez; supervisor Lilia Montanilla and Carla Serrano and Nora Abellosa.

Earlier, International Justice Mission—a foreign-based advocate—wrote Lim about the café-bar employing women and minors whose customers were foreigners.

The raid was made by a team composed of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Department of Justice, Manila Police, and the Department of Labor.

Following Lim’s directive, Magtibay is expected to trace the paper trail in city hall through every stage in the processing, approval and issuance of a business permit and license, fire and sanitation inspection, employment and renewals.

Källa: www.manilastandardtoday.com

[Gulafebern SE]

En epok går i graven

[Sjobusen]

Tråkigt att läsa detta, många underbara dagar, nätter man härjat runt där

[Spi]

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fan!

Men ändå.. Lim är jävligt bra för manila. Även om hans och mina intressen konfliktar stort!

[The Sixpack]

Oroa er inte, alla fnasken har gatt dom 200 metrarna till amazonia! Sa dar ar det overfullt nu!
Ryktet i manila ar att aset Lim ville 10 mil pesos extra i muta och nar grabbarna inte fick fram det fort nog sa drog han i handbromsen, for att samla lite pluspoang hos Noy-noy och hans nya adminstration.
Skulle tippa pa att dom ar back in buisness snart