Two men who ran brothels in Hounslow and Hayes have been jailed for a total of 21 months.
Sandel Lupu and Onudinald Boca each admitted two counts of running brothels in Kingsley Avenue, Hounslow, and Uxbridge Road, Hayes.
Lupu, 33, of Heston Road, Hounslow, and Boca, 35, of Hayre Drive, Southall, were each sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Tuesday (September 29) to nine months imprisonment for the two offences.
Lupu was given an extra three months after admitting possession of an offensive weapon, namely a stun gun.
A third man, Mihai Hotnogu, 36, of Hayre Drive, Southall, admitted possession of criminal property. He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, suspended for two years.
The court heard how police had raided the brothels on March 30 and found Lupu at the Hounslow address, along with six young female sex workers, and Boca at the Hayes property, where there were also a number of sex workers.
When interviewed, all the prostitutes told police they were there of their own free will and had not been forced into sex work.
Officers later searched Hotnogu's home and found £48,336 in cash, the prosecutor told the court, £1,000 of which was the proceeds of prostitution from a friend and the rest of which was undeclared earnings from his various jobs including working as a doorman and a builder.
The defence counsel told the court Boca and Lupu had each been paid £40 a day to work at the brothels, where they ran errands for the sex workers, buying toiletries, topping up their mobiles and ferrying them to and from the buildings, as well as distributing calling cards.
Hotnogu's lawyer described the defendant as a "hard-working" father who gave up his spare time to help out at a boxing club and a voluntary organisation called Babylon.
Sentencing Hotnogu, Judge Winstanley said: "Money laundering at this level is a serious criminal offence, such that it can only be dealt with by a custodial sentence...
"But you're not in any significant way connected with this most unpleasant business of exploiting groups of young women, save in that limited extent in respect of that lady working in the Kingsley Avenue activity who you knew, which is where the £1,000 came from."
All three men, who are originally from Romania, had denied various other charges, which were dismissed by the prosecution.
Marina Hotnogu, 35, also of Hayre Drive, Southall, had denied charges of possessing criminal property and having a weapon for the discharge of a noxious gas. These charges were also dismissed.
