Brothel, bottle shop, casino and nightclub all in one Dubai villa

Man denies running a brothel, gambling den and nightclub at his rented villa.

DUBAI // A man ran a brothel, gambling den, alcohol shop and nightclub in one rented villa, a court heard on Thursday.
Prosecutors at the Criminal Court said police found the villa in Abu Hail after being called to a fight involving several drunk customers.
When they arrived at the two-storey villa they found two of its rooms were being used as a nightclub and a third was a bottle shop, the court heard. Two more rooms were a makeshift gambling den and the other four were used as a brothel.
K?G, 25, an Emirati policeman, said police found cameras installed all over the villa when they responded to the call at dawn on May 23 this year.
"We found great quantities of liquor in the villa," the policeman said, as well as more than Dh30,000 in cash believed to be the proceeds of the illegal businesses.
HZ, 34, from China, denied running the businesses.
Four Chinese women - T?Y, 31, H?Y, 30, Y?J, 25, and Z?T, 24 - denied prostitution.
The next hearing was scheduled for October 7.
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