A Dublin man has been convicted of running a brothel that was targeted as part of the garda operation, Quest.
That operation was set up in 2005 to deal with organised criminal prostitution in the city.
44-year-old Martin Morgan was found guilty by a jury at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of running a brothel at a Bachelor's Walk apartment betwen 22 August and 10 October, 2005.
The jury returned its unamimous guilty verdict following more than eight hours of deliberation.
But it has still to return a verdict on a second charge that he also organised prostitution on the same dates.
Judge Frank O'Donnell remanded Morgan in custody and sent the jury away to a hotel for its second night.
The jury of eight women and four men will resume its deliberation in the morning.
Morgan formerly of Herbert Road, Blanchardstown and with an address on Blackstock Road in London denied three charges at the start of his trial, which is now entering its eighteenth day.
Judge O'Donnell withdrew the third charge that Morgan allowed the apartment to be used for prostitution on the same dates and has directed the jury to return a not guilty verdict on that.
Mr Morgan was arrested with a woman, Deena Edridge, when gardaí raided the Bachelors Walk apartment on 10 October 2005 following a surveillance operation that had begun two months earlier.
Edridge was jailed for 12 months last April after pleading guilty to allowing the Bachelors Walk apartment be used as a brothel.
She accepted that the brothel made several thousand euro on average per day but denied she would earn €2m a year as the owner.
Two other premises at Malton House in the International Financial Services Centre district that were used as a 'call-centre' for the brothel operation and an apartment at Herbert Lane in the Ballsbridge area were also raided on the same night.
Documents including business details and a cache of mobile telephones used in the brothel operation were recovered.
