A FORMER special constable and his Hungarian wife were convicted yesterday after they made a fortune trafficking girls from Hungary to the swanky London block dubbed the “Ten Floors of Whores”.
Ivett Szuda, 32, and her British husband Karl Ring, 34, enjoyed luxury lifestyles on the cash they made from their sex workers at Chelsea Cloisters — owned by Tory donor Christopher Moran.
Last year it emerged Moran made £8million from rents and service charges on the building, although he says he had no knowledge of the prostitution and has no link to this case.
Szuda, known as Eva, shipped the girls over to London from Budapest using low cost airlines.
The couple made over £600,000 from their prostitution ring and used it to fund a lavish lifestyle.
Snaps from the couple’s wedding in 2014 show how they had a lavish ceremony in a Central London hotel while they also splashed cash on fancy holidays, jewellery and luxury shopping sprees.
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Mum-of-two Szuda, who told the trial she had also worked as a sex worker, lured women to work in London using online ads.
They paid £100,000 in rent for apartments for the girls to use, getting punters in using their website, Kensington Angels, which at one stage advertised more than 100 prostitutes.
The women were told they could make up to £300 a day and would split half their earnings with the couple.
But after a nine-week trial a jury convicted Szuda of two charges of trafficking, four of arranging or facilitating travel for sexual exploitation and 11 counts of controlling sexual exploitation relating to nine women who cannot be named.
WOMEN SAW TEN MEN A DAY
Ring was convicted of six counts of sexual exploitation for gain and one of arranging or facilitating travel for exploitation.
The couple were both found guilty of controlling prostitution for gain and possessing criminal property and will be jailed at a later date.
They were cleared of forcing their nanny into prostitution. Jurors were in tears as some of the girls gave evidence at Isleworth crown court, West London, with many telling them they had to see nine or ten men a day.
One of the women became a sex worker after working for the couple as their nanny. She revealed she ended up in the Cloisters after her family struggled with money. She told the court:
“I worked from 10 to 9 for five months. On a good day I would see three to four clients a day, I earned £60 from each.”
Another girl, 25, said Szuda would take them to nightclubs to pick up punters and would give them cocaine.
She described the rancid state of the rooms during her evidence, saying: “You can actually smell a lot of people having sex. It was dirty.”
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When the couple were arrested last June, at their £740,000 home in West London, police found £20,000 in cash.
Another £600,000 was found in two bank accounts belonging to the couple.
Ring and Szuda had denied the counts. They will be sentenced at a later date.
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