Bangladeshi arrested in Dubai for running prostitution den

A Bangladeshi man living in Dubai turned to human trafficking and running a brothel to make ends meet. The 27-year-old guard was found guilty by the Court of First Instance on charges of luring, together with unknown others, two Kyrgyz women and then using them for prostitution. The two victims were picked up from Dubai International Airport by the guard and his accomplices and then transported to a building in Tecom, Jebel Ali, where they were coerced into working for the brothel. According to Khaleej Times, the man was sentenced to three years in jail by the court and his prostitution den was ordered to be shut down. The court further sentenced two other Kyrgyz women to six months in jail each for willingly working as prostitutes at the guard’s brothel. Al Barsha police learned about the prostitution ring when one of the victims managed to send a WhatsApp message to her brother in her home country, seeking help. Police sources said: “We raided the flat on the day we received the complaint. We found a man and a woman near the flat’s open door. They told us they worked for the Kyrgyzstan consulate and had been informed by relatives of two women that the women had arrived in Dubai few days earlier and had been held up against their will in the flat and forced to work as prostitutes.” On entering the flat, police found that it 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,” a corporal explained. The guard initially told the cops the two female defendants and the two victims were all willingly working as masseuses, but when interrogated subsequently, confessed that the flat was a prostitution den and that he was just a receptionist who also managed the brothel’s accounts.