Ong had told Teo that the social escorts would provide sexual services including sexual intercourse to customers if they wanted it. Ong recruited the escorts - aged between 23 and 33 - through people he knew, or met them through the MadamQ website. He called them or met them in person, sometimes accompanied by Teo, to brief them on their job scope.
Ong told the women - who were mostly Singaporeans but included one Mongolian and one Kyrgyzstani - that he would take a cut of 40 per cent from customers' payments. On top of this, he took a 5 per cent commission while Ong kept the remaining 35 per cent from the escorts.
Of the girls who worked as escorts, one year-old Singaporean entertained about 35 customers. She would wait for the details of the assignments from Ong, before heading to various hotels in Singapore to complete them, Deputy Public Prosecutor Jordon Li told the court. Another escort, a year-old Singaporean, came across the MadamQ website and indicated her interest to sign up.
The business came to a halt when one of the escorts was caught. On Aug 2, , officers from the Criminal Investigation Department conducted an operation at Holiday Inn in Orchard based on a tip-off and arrested the year-old Kyrgyzstani. Ong pleaded guilty to seven charges under the Women's Charter and two drug-related charges, with another 15 charges taken into consideration.
His accomplice Teo pleaded guilty to five charges under the Women's Charter, with another seven charges taken into consideration. Teo's defence lawyer Singa Retnam told the court that his client was declared bankrupt from to after transferring all shares in a company he owned to his ex-wife as part of divorce proceedings. The lawyer said that Teo had agreed to set up the website for his old acquaintance Ong as "it was not illegal to set up a social escort agency online".
