About a third of Amsterdam's red-lit windows for prostitutes will disappear from the city center as one of the main brothel owners is set to sell his empire to a real estate company.
A housing company is to buy 18 premises, currently featuring 51 windows, for about 25 million euros ($35 million), Amsterdam city council said.
Last November, the city revoked the trading licenses of 33 brothels because they were suspected of criminal activities including money laundering and drug dealing. However, the brothel owners appealed successfully against the decision.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Whorehouses to become just plain houses
If you're planning some sort of Euro-sleaze vacation in Amsterdam, you might want to hurry:
Well, that's a relief. I mean, really, who could seriously believe that there was a bunch of criminal activity going on in brothels?
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