Underage prostitute in vice-ring case testifies behind closed doors
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Former UBS executive director Juerg Buergin at the Subordinate Courts on March 19, 2013. The Swiss national is accused of having paid sex with an underage prostitute, then 17, who testified behind closed doors in a district court on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
The minor at the centre of the vice-ring case testified behind closed doors in a district court on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old woman was 17 at the time of her trysts with Swiss national Juerg Buergin in 2010 and 2011.
The 41-year-old former executive director of UBS is on trial for paying $600 for the minor's sexual services at Shangri-La Hotel on Sept 29, 2010, and $650 at Mandarin Marina Hotel on Jan 3, 2011.
The windows on the door of the court were plastered with white paper just before the minor was called to the stand during a short break after the pimp, Tang Boon Thiew, 39, had completed his evidence on the stand.
