Chinese gang ran Britain’s biggest vice ring

The Chinese head of the ‘largest prostitution ring in Britain’ earned more than £1.4m from trafficked and exploited sex workers, a court heard. Jie Zhang, 40, was the head of ‘Cloud 9’ an organised crime group which recruited and exploited a large number of East Asian and European sex workers in London brothels. Cloud 9 was ‘sophisticated and professional’ and operated from October 2015, until it was shut down in April 2020, when Zhang was arrested. Zhang denied charges of…