100 held over sex rings

Rome - Italian police arrested more than 100 people across Italy at the weekend on charges of running prostitution rings, including…

Rome - Italian police arrested more than 100 people across Italy at the weekend on charges of running prostitution rings, including organising "erotic cruises" in the Mediterranean over the Internet, police said yesterday.

Police arrested more than 100 suspected members of an international ring believed to be responsible for luring hundreds of women from Albania, Eastern Europe and South America to Italy with promises of work in hotels and restaurants.