Hong Kong - Two undercover policewomen posed as potential prostitutes to help crack an international sex syndicate that was sending women to work in overseas bars, a Hong Hong court report said Tuesday.

The two officers arranged a meeting with a man called Ho after answering an advertisement in a Chinese-language newspaper offering "quick money overseas by being public relationship officers in Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom" between December 2006 and June 2007.

At the meeting the women were told they could earn tens of thousands of dollars a month entertaining and having sex with customers in a bar in Chiba-Ken in Japan.

One of the girls agreed to go ahead and was given a flight ticket to Japan along with some contraceptive pills and lubricant and was instructed to use a false name and address for immigration purposes, said the report in The Standard newspaper.

Ho, whose real names is Law Wai-kon, appeared in court Monday and again Tuesday, pleaded not guilty to two counts of causing the prostitution of another person. He also faces two alternative charges of trafficking women.

The court heard he was arrested as he handed over the flight ticket to the undercover officer on June 11, 2007. The case continued Tuesday. (dpa)