Dubai: The Dubai Police Criminal investigation Department has dismantled a European criminal gang for human trafficking in the UAE, arresting its members and hunting for the rest of the ring internationally.
Brigadier General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri Director of Dubai Police Criminal Investigation Department said that the criminal web includes four European women who alternate roles in attracting girls from Europe to work in night clubs for high salaries, a chauffeur, and accommodation in five-star hotels.
The police were also able to rescue a European victim who came to Dubai to work as a dancer and was soon sold by one European lady who works in human trafficking to another at Dubai airport.
The second women’s job is to buy victims and send them to brothels while another woman detains the new victim, watches her, and sets up meetings with men for her to start her work as a paid prostitute.
Colonel Salim Khalifa Al Rumaithi, Deputy Criminal Investigation Department head said that as soon as the information reached the organised crime combat department, a team was put together to search and collect information. After investigations, the report and information was found to be true, and the investigation team was able to determine the location and to free the victim from her captors.
Colonel Abdul Raheem Shafei’e, Director of the organised crime combat department said that information came in to the department specifying that a 22 year old Eastern European woman was held in a building behind the Mashriq bank building opposite the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Deira, where she was forced into sex. The report also pointed out that her passport was taken away from her and that her captors kept on moving her from one location to another and were forcing her into prostitution. The woman was pleading for help in a manner that would not endanger her life.
After receiving the report, the police team was able to raid the flat with the permit of the public persecutor. They succeeded in freeing the victim who was held up in the flat.
The team soon found out that other suspected women in Europe searched for young girls only to sell them in the UAE and after the selling process they would leave the country the very next day. Another woman human trafficker would receive the girls after paying the money only to deliver them to other women who run brothels.
The reason for this complicated procedure is to put off the police tracking their exchange. Furthermore, moving the victim from place to place makes it difficult to define her location if she tried to contact police.
