Madame must find £300k

A woman who ran a string of brothels across the country has been ordered to pay back more than £300,000 of punter profits. Chinese national Yanping Zhu, 40, controlled a network of bordellos for men interested in southeast Asian women in cities including London, Liverpool and Southampton. From April 2016 to October 2017 she ran around 26 brothels which employed more than 40 prostitutes. Zhu held the tenancy agreements for most of the buildings under the fake name of Ms…