The alleged business-owner of a brothel operating illegally from a suburban Ballarat street will dispute aspects of the charges.
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The 45-year-old woman charged over the brothel, which was located in a weatherboard house in Skipton Street last October, faced the Ballarat Magistrates' Court briefly on Friday for mention.
Hui Juan Kang has been charged with seven offences, including knowingly carry on a business as a sex worker provider without a licence between May 21 and September 22, knowingly live wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution, publish advertisements for sex work services that contravened the regulations and deal with $4400 (AUD) and 6191 Yuan (Chinese currency) suspected to be the proceeds of crime.
As of October 4 the Skipton Street premises, which was operating as "Silk Hands Massage" was declared a prescribed brothel by the Ballarat Magistrates' Court.
Kang's lawyer, Kellie Blair, on Friday told the court the matter was complex and would benefit from a contest mention.
"An offer to settle has been rejected," she told magistrate Gregory Robinson.
Kang, who was assisted in court by a Mandarin interpreter, had her matters adjourned to the next contest mention date on March 9.
Her bail was extended to that date.