Guard jailed for running brothel in his Dubai flat

Dubai - The guard and his accomplices picked up the two victims from the Dubai International Airport

By Marie Nammour

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Published: Mon 1 May 2017, 4:45 PM

A 27-year-old Bangladeshi guard has been sentenced to three years in jail by the Court of First Instance on charges of human trafficking and running a brothel.
The court found him guilty of luring, together with unknown others, two Kyrgyz women to travel here seeking maid job offers and then exploiting them using prostitution. The guard was also accused of running his flat as a prostitution den. That place was ordered shut down by the court.
The guard and his accomplices picked up the two victims from Dubai International Airport and then took them to a building in Tecom, Jebel Ali, where they intimidated and forced them to work in the illegal business.
The court also sentenced two other Kyrgyz women (not the victims) to six months in jail each on prostitution charges. The three accused will be deported afterwards.
The case was reported to Al Barsha police on July 19, last year.
The prostitution ring fell came to the police's notice after a WhatsApp message was sent by one of the victims in Dubai to her brother in her home country seeking help. "We moved to the flat on the day the complaint was filed. We found a man and a woman at the flat's door which was open. They told us they worked for Kyrgyzstan consulate," a police corporal said.
"The two consulate employees told us they were informed by relatives of two women who had arrived in Dubai few days earlier and had been held up against their will in the flat, in an attempt to force them to work as prostitutes".
The corporal and other officers entered the place and found the guard sitting at a reception table near the door. The flat was divided by curtains into partitions which suggested that it was used for prostitution. "We also spotted a surveillance camera hidden in the light outside the flat. The guard claimed that the flat was run for massage business," the corporal added.
The guard told the cops the two female defendants and the two victims were all willingly working as masseuses.
The guard admitted to the investigators later that the flat was run as a prostitution den by an accomplice and that his job was receiving customers and collecting money.
One of the victims told the prosecutors that when they arrived to the airport, they were taken to a flat. "Four men came to take our bags and threatened us not to scream. We were surprised it was a massage services flat. A customer arrived and we were told to stand up so he could pick a woman. He chose my friend, but she refused to go inside with him and cried".
The other victim said: "I sent a WhatsApp message to my brother in my home country seeking help. He contacted the consulate."
mary@khaleejtimes.com
 


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