The owner of a number of massage parlours was given a two-year suspended sentence after he admitted to using them as a brothel.
Four Colombian women who worked there of their own volition were also charged with prostitution.
Joseph Zammit, 42 from Marsascala, was found guilty of living off the earnings of prostitution, owning or participating in the running of a brothel and permitting his property to be used for prostitution or immoral purposes.
Inspectors John Spiteri and Paula Ciantar explained to the court, presided over by magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras, that the man would employ the women as masseuses, who would then offer sexual services to clients.
His lawyer Arthur Azzopardi emphasised that the women were not trafficked, but employed under a profit-sharing arrangement.
“It is a clear case of keeping a brothel. The women were part of a commercial partnership and were paid from the takings of the business,” he said. 
A number of premises in Fgura, St Julians, Birkirkara and Ħamrun were mentioned in the charges.
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