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Two tried to clinch deal via WhatsApp to sell maid

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Published on September 17, 2017 with No Comments

Jobless men tried to sell woman to work as prostitute to police informant for Dh3,400

Two jobless men have landed in police custody after they arranged with an informant via WhatsApp to sell a woman to work in sex trade. The Bangladeshi men, aged 25 and 30, were said to have communicated with their two compatriot maids via Facebook and lured them with lucrative job offers rather than working as maids for Dh800 in Abu Dhabi. Having been contacted by another Bangladeshi woman, the maids were convinced for running away from their sponsor’s house in Abu Dhabi and were brought to Dubai to work in jobs for Dh5,000 each. Shortly after discovering that the lucrative job was nothing more than prostitution, one of the maids refused and resisted all attempts to make her work in the sex industry for two consecutive days.

Thereafter, the Bangladeshi men, who had driven her from Abu Dhabi to Dubai, communicated with another man, who turned out to be a police informant and agreed to sell him the maid for Dh3,400 to work in prostitution. After communicating with Dubai Police’s anti-human trafficking department, the informant received the maid’s photo via WhatsApp. As part of a string operation, according to records, police arrested the two Bangladeshi men shortly after they contacted the informant and notified him on his WhatsApp that they had arrived in Al Karama public park. Prosecutors charged the suspects with committing a human trafficking crime and exploiting the maid’s need when they offered her for sale to work in prostitution. The main culprit, a Bangladeshi national as well remains at large. The duo were also accused of aiding and abetting the absconder with running a brothel. The suspects pleaded not guilty to the human trafficking charge before the Dubai Court of First Instance. The maid testified to prosecutors that she arrived in the UAE on a visit visa and had started working as a maid for Dh800 for a family in Abu Dhabi.

The court will appoint lawyers to defend the suspects when it reconvenes on October 8.

 

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