Travel and phone app ban for ‘sex traffic gang’

Five suspects accused of running an international sex trafficking empire have been slapped with a strict order banning them from travel and using mobile phone apps. The group allegedly ran a ‘significant number’ of residential properties run as brothels across the capital and laundered £1.4m through Chinese currency exchange markets. The four women and one man, who cannot be named, are currently under ‘intense’ investigation for modern slavery and human traffic offences. It is claimed they used chat platforms such…