NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- A millionaire couple was convicted on Monday of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion in New York to work as housekeepers.

    Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, and his wife, Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 45, were each convicted of all charges in a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude, and harboring aliens, the Associated Press reported in a dispatch from Central Islip, New York.

    Prosecutors said the two Indonesian women were subjected to repeated psychological and physical abuse and were forced to work 18 hours or longer a day.

    The Sabhnanis, who operate a worldwide perfume business out of their Mutton town home on Long Island's Gold Coast, could face up to 40 years in prison.

    Prosecutors say the two women were made to sleep in closets of the sprawling, multimillion-dollar home of their employers. They were forced to work day and night, threatened, tortured, beaten with rolling pins and brooms, deprived of adequate food and never allowed out of the house except to take out garbage, the New York Times reported earlier.

    The two, 51 and 47 years old respectively, were lured from their jobs and families in Jakarta in 2002 with false promises.