KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30 -- What started as a high-profile raid on a spa and health centre in Chow Kit here for suspected deviant sexual activities ended with 171 Malaysian men walking free on bail, apparently because no one admitted they were a victim.

City police chief Datuk Fadil Marsus said Malaysian men were let go after the Magistrate's Court rejected its remand applications, local media reported today.

He said police investigating the case under Sections 377 (unnatural intercourse) and 372 (prostitution exploitation) of the Penal Code could not proceed because "not a single one of them admitted to being a victim of exploitation.so the case is gone".

"All those arrested were investigated under Sections 377/372 of the Penal Code, but...