(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The Dubai Police recently rescued a 15-year-old girl from the grips of a human-trafficking gang in Dubai.
Brigadier Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director of General Department of Criminal Investigation said, the anti-organised crime department arrested members of an Asian gang that brought girls from their homecountry to Dubai after luring their families with money and false promises.
Elaborating, Mansouri stated that some gang members allegedly approached the girl's family in Pakistan and promised to give them good money to send the girl, identified as QSM, to the UAE.
Police said the girl was brought to the UAE by PM, an Asian woman who was allegedly the gang's mastermind, in July and was beaten up and forced into prostitution. PM used a forged passport where the girl's name and age were changed to get her a visa into the UAE.
Colonel Salem Khalifa Al Rumaithi, Deputy CID Director for Investigation and Search, said that the Anti-Human Trafficking Department started investigating the matter when the received information about the deceit and fraud drama which began at the victim's home country. He explained that the first step the police took was in the direction of rescuing the girl. By the end of August they tracked her down as she was coming back from visiting a client.
She was brought to the police headquarter and the Anti-Human Trafficking team asked her to assist them in helping arrest the gang members. An undercover police officer posed as a customer and struck a deal with the gang leader PM to take the girl home for three days. The suspect agreed after she asked him to meet her and pay the money in advance. The police caught her red handed while she was receiving police money from the undercover cop.
Following her arrest, PM led police to the gang's prostitution den where police arrested two other men as well as another woman for willingly engaging in prostitution.
The police found passport of the victim, receipts of money transfers and note containing prostitution revenue and seized cash in different currencies.
All suspects were referred to the Dubai Public prosecution.
A few days later, in the first week of September, police arrested two other men who are believed to be part of the same criminal network, who ran a prostitution racket in another emirate. The second suspect was found to be residing in the country illegally.
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