October 2017, United Arab Emirates. 30 km south of Dubai. On Friday around 6:00 am a local shepherd, walking around the deserted area near dried-up riverbed of Vadishar, noticed a female body washed up on the sand. Dead body lay on his side, partially covered fabric. The burnt fingers are clenched cramp. There are almost no clothes left.
Face was disfigured by blows. Police arrived 37 minutes later. Already by 9:00 am The area was surrounded by tape. Worked forensic team. By site people were crawling around in masks and with backpacks for collecting evidence. In drone footage, posted on a private Telegram channel a day later, it is clearly visible that the body is not was moved by wind or animals.
It lay where it was placed. At first, everything went according to the typical scenario for local crime news: anonymous deceased, heat, trampled sand. But a day later a name appeared. The Canadian Embassy confirmed the identity. Noemie Charpentier’s girlfriend, 22 years old, Canadian citizen, from Montreal, student Faculty of Fashion at the University Kwibeka, a temporary resident of the UAE intern visa.
arrived within the framework international internship programs, concluded between the university and a private company Air. 6 days before, October 15 Noemi has stopped communicating with parents. Last recorded message in her messenger. I have Today is the meeting. You need to behave officially. I can’t miss it. By according to the provider, this message was sent to 158.
After 9 minutes, phone activity stopped. Geolocation indicates a villa on the outskirts of the Albarsha district, a house with white walls and high concrete fence. CCTV cameras on the street, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, did not work due to technical malfunctions. To Noemmi’s house She went in alone and didn’t come back out.
Official press release published by the Emirati police on October 23, claims that The cause of death was heat stroke. The air temperature that day reached 41°. On the body, according to the medical examiner’s report, there were no signs of open wounds, except for partially burnt fingers. The police found no signs violent death.
The investigation was closed. The body was released for repatriation, but In Montreal, the heat stroke theory is not supported arranged for the parents. They insisted on re-examination. The second report was ready in 11 days. It was carried out by three independent forensic experts Iquibeka, and Toronto.
According to the findings, Naemi’s death was the result of mechanical asphyxia, strangulation. Except that were recorded on the body signs of retention, characteristic hematomas on the ankles and wrists. The most important thing was that there were no internal organs: liver, kidneys and one kidney removed surgically, cut off with high precision, without any traces of torn early.
This is not work, This is operational work. More on that soon The Glob Mail and Ludevo wrote. Photos have emerged, a report has been leaked, father’s interview. Canadian journalists requested materials, cases in the UAE, but were refused. Requests to private OON Air remained unanswered. No one employee of the fashion house who accepted Noemi is on an internship and hasn’t gotten in touch.
Phones are unavailable. The website has been removed. The Dubai office has been sealed. According to the data, received from a French journalist Frederica Buso, Maison was registered through an offshore company in the Virgin Islands. The only one nominal owner, a citizen of the Czech Republic, 30 years old, who lives in Prague and, as It will later turn out to have nothing to do with fashion industry.
At the university in Montreal confirmed that the program the internship really existed, but the legal basis of the agreement turned out to be extremely vague. Signed he was at the faculty level in 2015 without approval from university law department. Correspondence with the receiving party was conducted via unofficial email addresses.
None of the department staff, including internship coordinator, did not meet personally with Meon Air representatives. Soon new details began to emerge. For the last 4 years, according to independent journalistic association Borderless Investigations, under a similar program at least 15 more interned students from France, Italy, Canada and South Korea.
In open sources It is indicated that everyone has returned, but there are no contacts It was not possible to establish with them. Their profiles removed from social networks, phones inactive, even Google Cash archives empty. Some of the names, like It turned out that they were pseudonyms. Some girls, according to the database International Centre for Missing Persons persons are also listed as missing.
But with different dates in other countries the investigation begins to move into another plane. Naemi’s parents appeal to the federal authorities of Canada with a request to initiate interstate investigation. A special unit at the Ministry is being activated Foreign Affairs. The work is being formed group.
Journalists find a new a clue. One of the internship contracts сOn was signed on behalf of the office, located in Geneva, Switzerland. IN November, a month after the discovery bodies, Frederic Busot gets into his order document, extract from Swiss register, according to which in the structure of Mezon R there is one more number division of RLAPS AG, registered as a research center in the field of biotechnology.
Address: industrial area outside Lasanne, the same legal owner, the same offshore chains. Journalists are starting unite in Paris, Montreal, Geneva. A new version appears. Internships could have been a cover for the export of women in the OA for the purpose of unauthorized medical intervention. Trade organs, experiments, elite clinics.
But this is just an assumption for now. On At this stage, it’s still official the wording of the Emirates is in effect police. Heat stroke, natural circumstances closed. Nomi’s body buried in Montreal under supervision municipal authorities. But relatives continue to strive for something new investigations.
They don’t need an explanation, they need the truth, and it seems to be is not limited to one dead body. The investigation continued with attempts to establish the path of Noémie Charpentée in the first days after her arrival in Dubai. According to the data provided UAE Immigration Service, girl arrived in the country on October 9, 2017 Emirates flight from Toronto with a transfer in Amsterdam.
At passport control in She gave the address at Dubai Airport temporary accommodation, Millennium Hotel Al-Barsha, which was confirmed by records in in the check-in log. Hotel cameras We recorded her appearance every day until 15 October. That day at 2:50 pm she left buildings, got into a white car with tinted windows and drove away.
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Number The machine is not readable. This video became the last proven visual Noemi’s contact. The next day Montreal Program Coordinator Marie Claire Dubois received a message from unknown user sent from a temporary Telegram account. In it it said: “Your student cancelled participation. The reasons are personal.
Remove it from programs. “Confirm.” Dubois ignored the message. She I decided that it was a mistake and didn’t gave importance. She reported about the girl’s disappearance. I only found out after she The parents contacted the university through 4 days. Then it became clear that Noemi’s email is unavailable and WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger frozen.
Instagram accounts and Twitter was deleted within 1 o’clock in the evening on October 15. IP address, with which the removal took place belonged to corporate network in the Dubai area Marina, registered to the company, engaged in logistics and pharmaceutical supplies. Those at that time, a local outbreak began in Quebec investigation.
Journalists from Lapres established contact with two exes interns of the program, who in 2016 completed an internship in the same structure. One of them, name not disclosed, agreed to speak on condition anonymity. According to her, the conditions the stays were strange. Participants were settled separately. Not with them contact outside the office was allowed.
The traffic was controlled. Personal phones were confiscated during the internship, explaining this by politics confidentiality. The contract contained a medical clause. admission in which the signatory gave consent to assessment procedures stress resistance and emotional response.
Upon arrival in Dubai, the participants examined by a man who introduced himself as doctor from the clinic at the consulting center. After that, several of them were transferred to a separate direction, where they participated in private shows. The girl did not give any more details, stating that she had signed an agreement on non-disclosure under threat of a fine and lifetime ban on professional activity activities in the industry.
To this at the moment, an investigation by journalists from Weiss and the French Mediapart showed, that similar internships were used not only in Dubai. In the 2000s similar structure with the same style communications, similar agreements and those same email addresses, already featured in Italy, and in 2011 in Turkey.
In both cases, data surfaced about the missing participants. There is one in Istanbul one of the students, a citizen of Spain, disappeared without a trace 6 days after arrival. The case was closed, citing possible escape. It was later revealed that she appeared under a different name on the list interns in Dubai in 2 years. After the trace of this is lost.
Expanding the geography investigations, Borderless group Investigations began to compare company registration. Through publicly accessible offshore companies were successfully established chain. Mezon R was part of a larger a large scheme that includes a minimum nine legal entities in Panama. Switzerland, Hong Kong and Estonia.
All of them connected through one administrator, Lebanese citizen Mahmoud Arouni. He was listed as a director in six structures, including in the company, which The car that was taking Noemi away belonged to him. Aruni was registered as international logistician licensed for transportation of medical equipment.
At the same time, journalists gained access to an internal email one of the Swiss banks, sent in September of the same year. IN the letter spoke of a non-standard financial activity on the account, owned by RLAPS AG. Translations to a sum of more than 2 million euros went into Emirates, Lebanon and South Africa. Purpose of payments, research needs, private medical expenses and corporate consulting.
There were three names listed as beneficiaries, not previously mentioned in the press. Two of They had diplomatic immunity. IN In December 2017, he was detained in Amsterdam. a man who was trying to fly out Qatar with a fake passport. At the investigation revealed that he had used citizen’s identity card Bulgaria, but the fingerprints matched Interpol base.
It turned out to be Pierrot Macini, an Italian who previously worked in international pharmaceutical company, fired in 2004 after allegations of smuggling of medical drugs. Macini admitted that since 2005 collaborated with a number of private clinics, specializing in palliative care surgery and transplantology, and that it the work has always been related to logistics tel.
He denied any connection with Noah Charpentier, but they were found on his phone photographs of documents with the girl’s name. One of them is a page from the questionnaire on internship with signature and date. Her The authenticity was confirmed by the family. On archive on his laptop’s hard drive correspondence with ORPS representatives, including number of mentions of series 27.
This term will later surface in another investigation, already in Africa, where they took place informal clinical trials drug that suppresses the immune response in patients after organ transplantation. While these details were being collected into a dossier, Officially, everything remained in Dubai unchanged. The case is closed, there is no evidence.
No. Foreign journalists are subjected to restriction of access. In January 2018 The Canadian Embassy has issued a re-issue a statement demanding openness and facilitating international verification. There is no response from the Emirati side followed, but at this time appears key witness.
The name of the woman who I decided to speak, initially not was revealed. In the documents she appeared as Sarah A. Later, after coordination with lawyers and with support human rights organization Medical Whistle Blowers International, she gave public interview under full name Sarah Irene Arnold, 26, citizen UK, former student London School of Design.
She said that in the spring of 2016 took part in an internship in the line Air, having received an invitation after the selection, conducted through an internal competition for faculty. The program included three-week stay in Dubai, payment accommodation, transportation and participation in preparing a private fashion show.
The reality, according to Sarah, turned out to be completely different. Upon arrival in Dubai, she they didn’t put us in a hotel, as it was indicated in the documents, and in a private house on the outskirts of the Albarsha district. It’s already there there were three other girls from France, South Korea and Argentina.
Everyone’s phones were confiscated for a while. confidential training. There were windows covered with thick curtains. Movement was controlled by a security guard. Every morning a car arrived and took away girls to the center. Sarah recalls that the place resembled a laboratory: white walls, steel doors, absence markings.
Uniformed employees without identification marks. On the second day During her stay, they took blood from her and conducted tests, ultrasound. They didn’t explain it to her, For what. Later the girl was invited to consultation, where they stated that she had excellent parameters. and offered to go through voluntary medical procedure for large reward. She refused.
On the third day, according to her, the Argentine disappeared. Her things remained, but the bed was neatly laid out, as if it had been there was none. Nobody answered the questions. Two days later, the Frenchwoman fell ill. She has the temperature rose, there were convulsions. They took her away and she never saw her again.
I saw it. On the seventh day of Sarah’s stay attempted to escape. At night through she climbed out of the utility window premises and ran to the residential area, where she was picked up by a local woman. On the next day the girl found herself in British Consulate. Since then She was hiding.
Contact the OA police She was strongly advised against it. Her the testimony became key. After publication of her interview in the BBC UK law enforcement agencies initiated a request to Interpol. On based on her testimony began international audit of UN activities Ar and all structures associated with it. Canadian investigators confirmed the plausibility of the details she described, including house locations, numbers machines and the internal layout of the center, where the examinations were carried out.
Indications Sarah also agreed with the findings Swiss journalists, who also moment discovered in the Geneva archives Chamber of Commerce company presentation RLAPS AG. In it, under the guise of ethics biomedical research was described working with donors aged 20 to 30 years. Consent to participate in studies involving invasive procedures.
In 2 months transportation data was received medical samples from the UAE to Geneva. Documents leaked through customs informant, contained notes about organic samples of category B, referred to a clinic whose license was suspended in 2012 after publication of data on unauthorized transplants in patients from Saudi Arabia.
3 years later The license was restored. In March In 2018, Felix was arrested in Geneva. Van Oosterhoud, a Belgian physician, who was listed as a consultant at RLAPS AG. 34 were found on his laptop. dossier on young women, including photo by Noémie Charpentier. In the documents scanned copies were present questionnaires.
medical indicators, instructions for preparation for procedures and signatures in Arabic. According to according to the experts’ conclusion, the signatures could have been counterfeit. Van Oosterhout himself claimed he didn’t know about the violence the nature of the procedures and what worked in within the framework of contracts with private clinics, without asking questions.
Indications Osterhout, Sarah Arnold and documents with laptops became the basis for the first criminal case opened in Switzerland under the article “Trafficking in people for the purpose of medical use.” It was the first case in Europe where organs the investigation acknowledged the existence organized scheme, hiding behind educational programs and cultural exchanges.
In the case seven countries and 15 legal entities were involved persons and, according to preliminary data, not less than 27 victims. The investigation came to the conclusion the conclusion that the network had been operating for at least 2010. In the center stood a man, name which was mentioned in the reports under pseudonym Rafael S.
Later it turns out that we are talking about Raphael Sadeq, a French citizen, former employee of a private pharmaceutical company company, dismissed for falsification clinical data. In the OOAE he was part of Board of Directors of Air Global, registered in free Dubai’s economic zone. However, to at the moment of commencement of investigative actions Raphael Sadek has disappeared.
His last movement recorded at the airport Abu Dhabi. Flight to Johannesburg. By as of the beginning of 2021, he was listed as wanted, but not officially detained. IN May 2019 in federal court The trial in the case has begun in Switzerland Arlaps. Of the sixteen defendants under There were seven guards.
The rest were accused in absentia. Among them are two doctors: logistician, translator and UAE citizen, former government employee clinics. The trial lasted more than six months. The case materials included the following figure: at least 41 victims, including Noemi Charpentier. Only eight of them were officially identified.
The rest were listed as unidentified donors. Prosecutor’s Office sought recognition of the organization criminal group. acting under cover for educational structures. IN The verdicts were handed down in December 2019. Van Oosterhoud received 8 years, secretary There are five companies
The court recognized the activity criminal, but did not establish full composition of participants. Raphael Sadek remained wanted. Noemi’s case were not formally reclassified. UAE refused to hand over the case materials or recognize the results of independent expertise. It seemed like everything was over, but After 2 months, the editorial office of the Ministry of Education received flash drive with encrypted archive.
Her sent from South Africa. There were inside video recordings made with a hidden camera. One of them shows a woman who looks like Noemi sits in the room, chained belts. In the background are medical workers in uniform without insignia. The video is dated 16 October. It was the day after her disappearances.
Flash drive sent to editorial office, became a key element, which cast doubt on the official version of Noemmi’s death Charpentia. After decryption, specialists digital forensics confirmed authenticity of metadata. The entries were not edited, they were made on a miniature camera with automatic supplying date and time. First The video recording lasted 15 minutes.
Camera was presumably secured under table or medical couch. In the frame a room with gray walls, metal cabinet, stretcher. Girl in hospital gown tied with belts to chair. The face is beaten, but identification is possible the parents spent. It was Noemi. She was conscious, tried something say.
After 4 minutes in the frame two people in white coats appeared and masks. One of them is a man with characteristic lameness in the right leg. He reviews documents and gives instructions in English. Under anesthesia episode 27. Then the recording ends. Total on There were eight videos on the flash drive. Five of them are – documentary filming of medical procedures carried out without compliance sterility and with gross violations ethics.
Commands can be heard in the background English, French and Arabic languages. In some videos, the patients are not move, either under anesthesia or dead. One of the files is recorded the moment of removal of the kidney organ subsequent packaging in a container. On plastic box with a sticker with a logo private clinic in Cape Town. This the institution did not officially have a license for transplant operations.
By data obtained from a former employee Interpol, later a political refugee in Germany, similar archives have already existed were recorded within the framework of closed investigations into illegal activities organ trafficking in Central Asia. Some of the personalities featured in video materials, also found in operational developments in Turkey, Kenya and Kosovo. However, none of the cases came to fruition.
before the trial due to lack of direct evidence or intervention of local authorities. The flash drive itself was sent via private courier company in an envelope no return address. The only trace- South African postmark and a fingerprint that matched the woman named Nomvule Dlamini, formerly who worked as a nurse in a private clinic Gordon Medical in Pritoria.
Her address was indicated in the police report, compiled after she disappeared in October 2019. Since then, her location unknown. Lemonde handed over the archive to the Swiss prosecutor’s office. The records were also shown to Noemi’s parents. They filed new lawsuit against the UAE, demanding official recognition of the fact of murder.
Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada issued a strong statement, calling Dubai’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation unacceptable and contrary to the principles international law. However, there was no response from The Emirati side did not follow suit. IN the statement from the Emirati Ministry of Interior was only it was repeated that the case was closed absence of corpus delicti and interference of foreign structures is not complies with UAE legislation.
Those At the same time, journalists from the TV channel were in London Channel 4 has obtained a copy of the internal report of a non-governmental organization, working in East Africa, in which cases of medical expeditions of European specialists to the territory of Eswatini or Lesotho. IN the documents contained names, coinciding with the defendants in the Arlas case.
One of them is Raphael Sadek. According to information According to local informants, he was on southern Africa under a false name, using a fake citizen’s passport Portugal. By the end of 2020 the investigation took on the characteristics of international scandal, but with from a legal point of view, many elements turned out to be unprovable.
The flash drive could not be accepted as evidence in a number of countries. because of impossibility of installing it origin and legality of filming. The personalities in the video are not officially identified. identified. Medical facilities in South Africa and the UAE declined to comment. Key The defendants continued to hide.
IN in the hands of journalists at the beginning of 2021 an internal document of the European commissions, draft risk report, related to private international internships in the field of medicine, fashion and design. The document described the risks, similar to Noemi’s case, and suggested creation of a pan-European base tracking educational programs for outside the EU. But the document never came.
published officially. He was recognized sensitive due to possible diplomatic consequences. At this moment At the moment, no state recognized it the fact of systemic human trafficking participation Air. However, a number of structures, including Interpol, WHO and the Council of Europe, confirmed the need for creation program control mechanisms international student mobility.
Noémie Charpentier’s story remains an example of how imperfection international mechanisms allow shadow structures operate on over the course of many years. Trust in educational programs, lack of interstate verification of companies and the reluctance of individual countries to cooperate with international investigations are created ideal conditions for operation and concealment of crimes.
Naemmi’s family before is still trying to get the case reopened. As of June 2025, their More than 300,000 people signed the petition. person, but none of the official the UAE authorities did not review qualification of the case. In the certificate of The cause of death is still listed as: heat stroke. And for now, it’s closed. new ones continue to circulate through the channels materials, the only thing that remains is – it is to remember that behind every beautiful the internship offer may be not a program, but a scheme. And behind the gloss
a room without windows where no one can hear, how you scream. On February 18, 2022, in the desert area south of the Alcudra area, approximately 45 km from the center of Dubai, construction workers the contracting company was partially discovered charred human remains. This occurred at 9:00 a.m.
during clearing old concrete platform, previously used as a warehouse. In the depths about 40 meters away it appeared from under the sand scull. After the police arrived, a pit was discovered where the parts were lying skeletons wrapped in a molten piece synthetic fabric. Found nearby metal wire with residues soft tissues, as well as charred bone fragments of the pelvis and humerus joint.
There was a plastic one lying separately a bag with scraps of women’s clothing and burnt shoes. Forensic the examination confirmed that the remains belong to a young woman of South Asian descent aged from 18 to 25 years old. On the left radius Traces of healed fractures were recorded. There is a hole in the occipital region of the skull shares.
Based on the DNA testing conducted examinations with the involvement of a Filipino the consulate’s identity was established Rosalyn Bakhit Lao, 19, originally from Cebu Province, Philippines. For the first time her the name appeared in the migrant database in January 2020, when she received work visa to the United Arab Emirates Emirates through a private agency, registered in Manila.
According to copies of the contract, Rosalyn was employed as a maid in a private house in the residential area of Emirates Hills. The employer is a man whose name is in It is not indicated in the documents, only initials. The contract included accommodation, meals, monthly payment of 900 dirhams and a ban on independent going beyond the territory without written permission of the employer.
Last contact with family recorded April 12 2020. After that, Rosalyn stopped get in touch. Her mother, who lives in Sibu, I contacted several times agency from which I received the response. The girl left her place of work voluntarily. Later a similar response was received sent to the Philippine consulate. In May 2020, the family filed a request for wanted.
Dubai Police have registered it formally, but the investigation is not was carried out. The reason is the absence signs of a crime. According to protocol, the employer stated that the girl ran away with an unknown man, possibly a Filipino, and refused further comments. Checks living conditions, interrogation by security or No analysis of the video recordings was conducted.
The contract was considered closed. Name Razalin was not included in the missing persons database. Her family’s appeals remained unanswered. answer. 2 years after discovery the remains were retried registered as death in under unclear circumstances. However, despite the results examinations, injuries incompatible with life, traces of body burning, signs concealment of evidence, criminal investigation it was not started.
The prosecutor’s office did not give comments, the family was not notified officially, and I found out about what happened from journalists who contacted them through public assistance organization migrants. From January to April 2020 Rosalyn lived in the center temporary accommodation for workers, staying on visas for domestic staff. It was located in Sharjah.
There She shared a room with three others women. One of them, Jenelyn S, later provided testimony. Rosalyn complained about alarming calls from unknown people demanding to behave It’s correct and there are no questions to ask. After 8 days later she was summoned to the administrative the room where she signed the papers and left with two men.
After that Jenelyn never saw her again. According to data Philippine side, agency, having formalized employment, terminated activities in the summer of the same year. All contracts were cancelled, The constituent documents were destroyed. Investigators who had contact with former company employees confirmed: many documents were drawn up with violations.
Women were sent to work until all stages of registration are completed, sometimes without specifying addresses and names employers. When Razalin’s body was found, no reaction from the side the authorities did not follow. no arrests, no checks. In no official The statement did not mention her name. Even in the moment of identification of the remains is was carried out under the wording: “Citizen Philippines, identity established, relatives notified.
” Only independent human rights defenders details were made public. The same ones It was confirmed that this is not the first a similar case. For 2 years in At least three women have gone missing in the region. All under 25, all from the Southeast Asia, everyone worked in private homes, everyone went through the same adaptation center.
Rosalyn’s family, who did not receive compensation, official apology or confirmation of the murder version was requested to international human rights structures. One of the coordinators reported: “The authorities refuse to acknowledge that death occurred as a result of violence. They classify it as disappearance, ended in a tragic outcome without fault of third parties.
At the same time, according to According to the examination results, death occurred from a traumatic brain injury sustained when struck by a blunt object before the onset of burning. On the bones of the pelvis and scapula traces of restraint were found. The ribs were broken in several places. Version The possibility of an accident was ruled out.
Near No personal belongings were found with the body, no phone, no documents. However, in a scrap of cloth found in the same in the package, experts recorded the remains blue detergent typical for products used in the home service in the Emirates. This indicated that the fabric belonged to the home uniform female workers.
3 weeks later discovery of the body by one of the guards, previously worked in the Emirates Hills area, told a private investigator that in In March 2020, one of the houses was hit at night A minibus without license plates arrived. From they brought out a girl from him, who, according to according to the description, there could be a line.
According to the guard, the girl did not resist, but walked slowly. She was at home clothes, bass. They brought her in through the back door entrance. There were no video cameras that evening worked. A week later, no one had seen her. saw. When asked what happened to her, The shift supervisor replied: “She left.
” Recordings entry and exit logs were destroyed in 2 months according to the regulations. On this at this stage the investigation had no suspects, no warrants, no access to surveillance camera archives. The house where Rosalyn was supposedly there, belonged to a legal entity, registered offshore. Access to Closed to owners.
Legal a representative declined to comment, citing diplomatic inviolability of one of residents. The investigation continued through the efforts of journalists and independent specialists. They started to rebuild a diagram of the girls’ movements, involved in the same logistics. It turned out that Rosalyn was not the first and not the last one.
After Razalin’s body was officially identified, private investigators noticed similarities disappearances that occurred in the same year. According to their data, at least three women from Indonesia and the Philippines were officially employed through an agency with similar routes and conditions: temporary accommodation in closed adaptation centers, lack of access to the phone, unreliable employers’ contacts.
Two of them stopped communicating in the spring of 2020. Relatives sent inquiries, but received the same answers. She left of his own free will, does not go out The connection may have left the country. The agency has been liquidated. In all cases without official investigations, without registration in the database missing, without a police visit to to the employer. The features matched.
In the same person was involved in all the cases contact structure. intermediary, registered in the name of a citizen one of the countries of Southeast Asia, known from other labor cases exploitation. His name is Jorge M. was mentioned in the contracts as a curator. After the closure of the main agency, he registered two more in the same building in Manila, changing only the name.
All legal entities were promptly liquidated 9-12 months later discoveries. Financial statements was absent. Visa support provided through the Partners agency in the UAE. In one of the contracts received through the surviving electronic archive, address the employer coincided with the house, in which, according to security, in March 2020 Rosalyn was supposedly located there.
Private researchers traced the logistics transportation. According to their assessment, there was a sustainable scheme for the delivery of young women from the adaptation center in Sharjah several private residential properties development. Only a few people took part in the transportation and the same transport companies: transport, minibuses without markings.
One of the drivers agreed to tell about routes. According to him, the girls are not had documents, telephones with them, personal belongings. They were sitting in the back of the cabin, not talked. Upon arrival, they passed on to the accompanying person, sometimes to security at the facility.
He didn’t know, what happened next. In some In some cases he waited on the street for an hour and a half, and then returned with an empty car. The tracks led to two addresses, registered to fictitious companies that have existed for no more than a year. One of them is that very house in Emirates. Hills, where Rosalyn worked.
Second cottage in the Albarsha area, owned by the company specified in contract of another missing Filipina. According to data collected by human rights activists, Both women disappeared two weeks later. after arrival. None of them opened local bank account. Salary was not officially paid. In their words relatives, connections with them were broken immediately upon arrival.
By autumn 2022 managed to collect information on at least eight such cases. All the victims, women aged 18 to 24 who arrived in the UAE in the period from the end of 2019 to spring 2020, everyone had the same routes, the same type of contact with the agency, the same refusal to conduct business with on the part of the police.
Traces of the majority were lost after settling into private houses. One woman was returned home with diagnosis of spinal injury, not in able to move. According to her, She could not talk about the cause of the injury. Relatives claimed that she was not I remembered the week before the flight. In January New information has emerged in 2023.
A woman who identified herself as a former employee at house associated with one of the same addresses, stated that the girls were being held in the basement. According to her, one night she heard screams, but she was told: “This is television.” She claimed that one of the girls spoke with an accent from the islands and I walked with difficulty.
A week later she was gone became. To the question where is she? The answer was short. Translated. Following this publication, journalists contacted a technical specialist, previously servicing internal systems security in the same area. He said that many houses in Emirates Hills had autonomous systems video surveillance without remote access.
The data was stored locally and was available upon request. The police were often told that the archive had been deleted. by the statute of limitations. This did impossible to obtain video fragments, if more than 3 months have passed. In fact this meant that none of the episodes the disappearances had no video surveillance, despite the presence of cameras.
Later private the organization that investigated the network, presented an electronic circuit personnel transfers between agencies and the addresses where the missing persons worked. IN at the center of this scheme is that same intermediary Jorge M. He was registered telephones that connected all the points route.
According to one of the records, he personally I went out to see the newcomers on the day of their arrival. IN mobile operator archives at least 14 such cases have been recorded routes from January to April 2020. His location remained unknown. According to border guard databases control, he left the country in July 2020 according to documents issued in another jurisdiction.
Not a single one since then no official trace, no warrants, no international searches. Cause lack of formal case. None of episodes were not classified as crime. Only Rosalyn’s death was recorded as unnatural. But even here there was no full-fledged investigation. In March 2023, one of the independent expert groups transferred to the disposal international observers report on the systemic nature of disappearances.
In it repetitions were indicated: names, routes, structures, financial transfers. Separately abnormally high mortality rates were observed among young women who were on service in private homes with closed access. In some cases, families received bodies without explanation. In one In this case, the body was not returned at all.
There was only a death certificate signed in private clinic without a diagnosis. This data were ignored at the state level level. Not a single public one the investigation has not begun. None no charges have been brought. All agencies involved formally ceased to exist. Prove them communication is impossible.
The documents were destroyed, The owners have moved out, the addresses do not exist. All that remains is a fragment of a body in sand, a couple of photos, testimony of those who survived. structure that by that time has already changed its appearance. In the spring of 2023 journalists working on the case, managed to gain access to the internal correspondence between the intermediary agency in Manila and the structure previously operating in the Emirates.
In one of the letters dated December 2019, the terms of personnel accommodation were discussed and it was mentioned that the new batch is ready for sending. Accelerated is required Accommodation until the end of January. Under the term the party implied female workers, those who have passed the adaptation stage.
The speech was at least eight women. There is a name on the list Rosalyn Belao. This document turned out to be key. He was transferred to the international working group on human trafficking, while maintaining the anonymity of the source. However, it did not receive legal action. The document was not officially certified and not had the strength of the street.
However, he confirmed the logistics scheme: recruitment, adaptation, distribution, absence supervision. The next task was confirmation of physical placement women in specific houses. It turned out that way impossible. None of the access systems in the residence did not maintain a centralized accounting.
All movements were recorded in paper security logs, which were stored for no more than 3 months. Some of them were falsified. The same signature was behind several different women. One of the exes guards who agreed to talk anonymously, described how in March 2020 during the quarantine period, his shift accompanied the arrival of transport to one of the objects.
The woman whom taken out of the car, he later identified photos. It was Rosalyn. According to him the girl did not resist the words, but was in poor condition, with a dark spot on the cheek. He noted that after her Upon arrival the house was switched to internal mode without external personnel, without cleaning, without outside supplies.
Such happened rarely and always accompanied by increased measures security. He added that in a few days before this the previous one was kicked out worker. The reasons were not discussed. In parallel, surveillance was carried out financial flows passing through counting chain associated with transportation staff.
One analyst showed that that in February 2020, from one and the same the same corporate account was made several small transfers in the name individuals one thousand and a half each dirhams marked as bonus. One of those The transfers came in the name of Rosalyn’s mother. She did not know from the ruler and was I’m sure this is a translation from my daughter.
However, at that time Rosalyn was no longer got in touch. This suggested the idea that the money was transferred from the goal of creating the appearance of life and activity. Similar transactions were also recorded in the files of other missing persons women. Everything pointed to an attempt extend the time before filing official statements about searches.
By May of the same year one of the organizations that supported the case missing women, received a statement from a woman who ran away from a similar house in the neighboring Emirate. She claimed that in the room where she was held, also There were other girls. In particular, she remembered one, quiet with a southern accent. Her neck hurt.
According to the description this coincided with the complaints that Rosalyn did it for neck pain back in January. The woman claimed that in one two people took this girl away from the night men. She didn’t come back in the morning. After that, the room was washed, the linen burned. When asked where she went, They replied: “Sent back.
” But nobody I didn’t see her leaving. The woman also claimed that the house had a basement with the door that always remained closed. Once every few days there Men wearing medical masks came in. Sometimes they took out packages. What’s inside, nobody knew. The girls were afraid ask. Those who tried, were subjected to isolation.
They were closed in a separate room without light for a day. U one of the held began panic attacks. She was taken away at night. After No one saw her do this. Witness later provided a list of names that she heard during her stay. One of they grew. This coincided with how colleagues called Rosalyn. Woman left home after 4 months.
She should run away the driver with whom she established the relationship helped contact. A few weeks later she got to one of non-governmental organizations. According to her words, she was afraid to speak until ended up in another country. In parallel with one of the specialists gave these indications The analysis of digital networks showed that for the period from the beginning of 2019 to spring 2020 There were at least five operating in the region legal entities registered on citizens of the same country.
All used similar phones, IP addresses and banking schemes. All organizations were either engaged in recruiting or logistics or visa support. In In all cases, the final recipient was one and the same person, Horhim, whom At that moment no one could find it. His Data removed from all commercial databases. His numbers are inactive, his passport cancelled.
According to data received from migration service of one of the Asian countries, he left the Gulf Territory in the summer of 2020 according to a passport issued in a different name. IN It is not registered in the country of destination. No bank traces, no registration in hotels. Border guards confirmed intersection, but did not indicate the direction.
From that moment on, there was complete silence. The official structures did not take any action no action. Argumentation, insufficient evidence, absence of bodies in other cases, the inability to confirm the connection between agencies, the presence of voluntary contracts. In one of the answers the international organization was told: “There are no signs of an organized scheme, no the purpose of exploitation is established, no direct evidence for each episode.
” Thus Thus, the investigation moved into informal stage. Human rights activists journalists recorded testimony tried to connect the events together. Private specialists analyzed data. The reports included a description closed system where disappearance The woman left no traces. Agency liquidated, footage removed, security silent, employer unavailable, police does not respond.
All that was left was this a footprint in the sand, a name on the phone, a voice in records, a fragment of a contract that does not have legal force. In the summer of 2023 one from private analysts who collaborated with international counteraction group human trafficking, gained access to backup copy of deleted correspondence between two employees of the intermediary agency that existed in Manila before beginning of the pandemic.
The messages discussed successful withdrawal of four units and the need to clean the databases. In one of the the letters indicated the route: center, transportation, receiver, control. Address the final destination coincided with location of the house, from where, according to data Rosalyn’s security was taken behind several days before disappearance.
This letter was given to journalists. They sent a copy to diplomatic representative offices and local authorities. There was no answer. Employee analytical group, who asked not to to call his name, confirmed: “Such kind of routes could be part of a well-established scheme in which a woman acted as a labor force, but was actually transferred to the conditions of complete isolation with further loss of rights and contacts.
In September of the same year an unexpected breakthrough occurred. In the neighboring An informal meeting was held in the Emirates an inspection following a resident’s complaint about the smell and screams from the basement. The object turned out to be residential house registered to the construction company company previously associated with the already closed agency.
Examination recorded the presence of an isolated basement rooms with metal door and internal locks. There are two inside metal bunks, two plastic ones buckets, traces of fixation on the floor and walls, ventilation system without an outlet to the outside, All equipment is unmarked. Smell residual, technical. No people there was nothing inside.
The owner of the house absent, legal tenant a person who was closed 2 months before the incident. The case was registered as inadmissible refurbishment of residential premises. The authorities closed the facility. Information in the media did not pass on. None of the materials was published. Journalists who received access to photos and videos from the scene, confirmed the room was ok descriptions previously given by women, escaped from such houses.
In the corner of the basement found a plastic card with torn pieces Phrases in English Laundry ID number 17. Similar badges were used in center in Sharjah, where they previously placed workers before distribution. According to the database Issue No. 17 in March 2020 Zarazalin Lao is secured. This was the first one material evidence, indirectly confirming her presence in similar conditions before extinction.
A month later, one of the human rights activists, working on the case, received a flash drive. She arrived by regular mail without return addresses in a thick brown envelope. On there was only one file on the media, video recording. The camera is black and white with low the resolution stood in the corner of the room, reminiscent of a basement.
There is a woman in the recording with long hair, sitting on the floor at walls. Only part of the face is visible. In 40 A man appears in the frame after a few seconds. Face illegible. He’s coming up to something. He says the woman moves away. Next sudden movement and dull noise. Recording breaks off. Date of shooting. March 2020. The time coincides with the week of the disappearance Rosalyn. The video was handed over to the police.
There were no comments. None A TV channel in the region published the footage. The video is not official. evidence, since it is not established identities, filming location and source. By According to independent journalists, the file was downloaded from an access point in one of the hotels in Jakarta.
surveillance camera I spotted a man at the reception desk, who left the envelope in the mailbox. His identity has not been established. By the source suggested it could be one of the drivers who had previously participated in transportation. He disappeared a week later. It was not possible to contact him. International human rights groups published a consolidated report on case.
It lists at least thirty women whose disappearances followed one and the same pattern. Recruitment through closed agencies, lack of access to relatives, false explanations employers, disappearance without a trace, police refusal to register cases. Name Rasalin Lao became the first one under whom managed to obtain material confirmation: body, video, card, witness testimony.
In all the rest In some cases, there are only indirect signs. The investigation is not officially completed. Authorities have not brought charges. None The defendant is not in custody. Most of the companies involved in scheme, were liquidated. All legal addresses are invalid. Some persons mentioned in correspondence, left the country.
About them location unknown. Family Rosalyn continues to live in Sibu. They did not receive an official apology. A response was received to the request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The situation is under consular control. control. No compensation was paid there was none. According to her mother, she found out about the death of his daughter from a post on social media networks.
Experts say the scheme, which the agencies operated, was not random. It was a system with management, logistics, cover and stable demand. weakness of control over work routes, absence real supervision, diplomatic inviolability, formal execution of visa procedures. All this made possible many years of functioning of a closed network.
She’s not had no outward signs of violence. All took place under the guise of legal migration. One of the women in the final report She said, “I didn’t know I wasn’t leaving. work. And disappear. Rosalyn’s Story ended up in a hole in the desert. But from all schematics are the only place where something left.
Everything else was erased, like as if she never existed. Formally it’s a matter open but not investigated. Formally There are no guilty parties, but there are missing people. AND If the video is not fake, if the card real, if the voice is recognizable, then the network still exists. Only now she doesn’t the agency is called.
Now it’s easy contact without name, bus without number, a door without a handle and disappearance without witnesses. At 6:42 morning, August 26 2019, fishermen who went out to fish in the coastal area of the Emirate of Sharjah, A female body was found in the water. It was partially undressed, hair tangled, and on the inner surface of the thigh was visible two symmetrical lacerations.
Body was in the initial stage decomposition. It was missing documents. The police arrived at the scene in 27 minutes. Officers surrounded the area coastline, but made no statements until the completion of the preliminary examination. Local media reported the discovery only after 2 days, limiting myself to one a line in the evening edition.
Discovered the body of a young woman. None there are no comments about the identity of the deceased followed. 7 hours later discovery of the body morgue at the central Sharjah Hospital confirmed that the speech It’s about a Polish citizen named Ognezka. Zavadskaya, 28, lived at the time arrival in Dubai at the One and Only hotel Royal Mirage.
Her disappearance was recorded by the hotel on August 23, when she didn’t return for breakfast in the morning and didn’t hand over the keys to the room. Her luggage remained untouched. I went to the reception one call from an unknown man in 8:00 am. He stated that the girl extended her stay. On this contact with it was interrupted.
The hotel reported the loss after 2 days. The police opened a file, but active actions began only after discovery of the body. Agnieszka Zawadka, Polish citizen, professional makeup artist and blogger, hosted a popular Instagram account dedicated to decorative cosmetics. Last post dated August 22, taken from the board Yachts off the coast of Dubai.
She arrived in UAEe 5 days before disappearance. By information from Emirates Airlines, its the ticket was issued upon invitation from Alfht Beauty Group, registered in Dubai, specializing in supplies cosmetics from Saudi Arabia. Contract The shooting was discussed verbally. She reported to a pen pal that will work with a private team of makeup artists closed presentation of the brand and that the shooting will take place on a yacht, then in the desert.
On The connection stopped working on the evening of the 23rd. August. According to the hotel receptionist, The night of his disappearance Zavadskoe left hotel circa 1930. She was wearing a white dress and was carrying small clutch. surveillance camera recorded how she sat down in dark gray Mercedes V-Class with license plates Saudi Arabia.
The driver was wearing white clothes and dark glasses. After that contact with her was lost. Investigation It started with a request from her family in Warsaw. 2 days after losing contact with Agnieszka her sister, Malgazata Zawadka, contacted the Polish consulate in Abu Dhabi. Based on diplomatic A request was sent for notes to Dubai initiate a search.
Over the next no official action for two days There was no response from the Emirati side. Only after applying to the international press and publication of a short note in The Polish newspaper Viborcha reported that the police Dubai sent a request to one in only and received video footage from cameras observations.
However, a day later this video recording from the yacht, where there was supposedly a party going on, disappeared from the system’s internal network CCTV at the Dubai Marina Club. Dubai police said that the video recording was not saved due to technical error. To requests for a list The authorities refused to allow guests on the yacht, citing confidentiality.
Press Secretary of the Criminal Investigation Department Emirates security said that expected party attendees left the territory of the UAE. According to data airport, four Saudi citizens Arabia took off on a charter flight from Dubai on August 24 at 6:00 am, less than 9 hours after the last appearance Zavadskoy on the hotel cameras.
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Their personalities were not officially disclosed. Forensic examination carried out in Sharjah, indicated in the report that the cause of death drowning occurred under unclear circumstances circumstances. However, independent forensic experts, invited by the Polish side, turned pay attention to traces of strong pressure in neck area, microcracks on the ribs and the presence of blood in the abdominal cavity.
Except in addition, internal injuries were recorded on the body hematomas. incompatible with normal mechanical injury from falling into water. Conclusions about possible sexual violence were not included in the final version document. The police did not initiate criminal case. It was registered only an administrative case regarding death foreign citizen.
At this stage The investigation has practically stopped. Only after public pressure from the family of the deceased published in Polish, British and French The story gained international attention in the press glaze. There is a movement on the internet Justice for Ogneshka, whose participants published the testimonies of other women, received similar offers about fashion filming in the Persian Gulf countries.
Several posts contained information about specific company Alf Beauty Group. Some claimed that contact took place through intermediaries, and the meeting was appointed not in the office, but in a hotel or private apartments. In Polish the center for the territory got involved in the case combating human trafficking and organized crime.
Signs began to appear that the case Ogneshki Zavadskoy is not an isolated case. Several young women, previously who visited Dubai and Bahrain, according to similar invitations were confirmed, who have encountered strange situations: isolation from connections, confiscation of passports, pressure from the organizers.
However, no formal complaints were filed. Most chose to remain silent. Formally The Zavadsky case remained closed. The perpetrators have not been identified. Proof lost, investigation suspended. However, in December of the same year, at the disposal of British journalists The Observer publication turned out to be internal correspondence between employees logistics agency Golf Aviation, servicing a charter flight from Dubai to Jidu August 24.
In the flight commentary the initials of one of the passengers of Majid Al-Asiri, a businessman from Saudi Arabia, associated with several charitable foundations in Dubai. Against this background, a new one has emerged detail. Alf Beauty Group was registered at the legal address, which included four more companies, engaged in real estate rentals, guardianship of minors in immigration and logistics.
They were all are associated with one IT company, registered in the UK. Analysis of accounting documents showed that that funds were transferred between them through a chain of fictitious accounts. This the discovery marked the beginning of an international investigations, but by that time the main ones The persons involved have already disappeared.
One of intermediaries, who called himself Said, in correspondence with a model from the Czech Republic, was identified a citizen of Yemen who previously worked in one of the modeling studios in Beirut. He left the territory of the UAE in the middle September, flying to Cairo. None yet None of the suspects have been detained.
The story of Gneshka Zavadskaya remains unsolved. AND although evidence points to involvement organized group, UAE police has not officially commented on the case since November 2019. In the second half of December 2019, the Polish investigative team center for combating human trafficking sent an official request to Dubai about transfer of copies of video recordings from cameras observations in the port where it was the yacht featured in the story is moored business is a habit. There was no answer.
In 2 weeks, at the beginning of January, information has appeared that the server with was subjected to video surveillance archive external intervention, and data for the required period was lost. Employee port, who wished to remain anonymous, reported that the recordings were most likely manually removed from the internal network long before the official request.
This confirmed the previously voiced suspicion. The destruction of traces took place quickly and purposefully before the formal start investigations. In parallel with this, in In Warsaw, interrogations of girlfriends were carried out, Agnieszka’s colleagues and subscribers. One of the Natalia Petrek became the key figure, makeup artist who won twice an offer from the same company Alfart Beauty Group.
In both cases, contact started on social media through an account that positioned itself as an independent agency cooperating with Middle Eastern brands. In conversation with Natalia noted with journalists that the tone communication was professional. The proposals were accompanied by scans. tickets, a list of tasks for the shoot, expected fee and accommodation in five-star hotel.
However, her I was alarmed by the requirement not to take it with me accompanying persons and the absence of legal contract. She refused. Later her blocked. In January 2020, against the backdrop of media pressure, it was created temporary working group at Europol. In a few weeks in the database Europol found matches between disappearances of women in the Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain with a similar profile.
Total there were at least nine similar ones cases over the past 4 years. In all job invitation from an informal agencies, tickets, luxury accommodation hotels, disappearance during the first days after arrival. Three were found dead. One is in the port of Manama, the other is at coast of Ras Alkhaimah, third in desert area near Abu Dhabi.
IN In two cases the cause of death was listed as unspecified. Only in the case of a zavadka did they appear signs of violent death. Studying financial transactions through cooperation with analysts from The Netherlands has identified an intermediary company Golf Horizon Logistics, serving several small charters carriers in the region.
This structure was listed in reports as a supplier transport and crew for private events. One of her orders matched by date with the party I attended Zavadskaya was spotted. There was a contract drawn up on behalf of the company, registered in the Seychelles. Payment was produced in cryptocurrency. Names there were no customers.
In March in hand journalists from the Lemond publication were caught internal intelligence service dossier France, where under the heading not for public dissemination was indicated connections between representatives Middle Eastern business and gray modeling industry in Europe. Among one of the partners of the mentioned names Afakht Beauty Group itself.
In the documents there was talk of possible involvement women under the guise of filming, subsequently detention, sexual abuse and forced into private meetings with high-ranking officials. Meanwhile Agnieszka’s story has gone beyond journalistic field. In Europe a demand was made in parliament EU countries temporarily restrict travel women for similar private contracts in high-risk countries.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland issued recommendations to citizens, those traveling to the UAE, with an urgent request to register through consulate. However, this did not stop a stream of similar offers on Instagram and TikTok, where under the guise of beauty collaborations and events in the fashion industry continued new messages appear.
For those who survived, managed to speak only after assurances of anonymity. We received access to audio recordings of the testimony of two women: citizens of Lithuania and citizens Ukraine, whose names are not disclosed at their request. They agreed to interview provided that their faces and votes will be hidden.
One of them She said: “I was met by a man in traditional clothing, but with an accent. He He said he would take us to the hotel, but we We drove into some villa and took it away phone and that’s it. There were other girls there, us they took pictures, then told me to go out pool. In the evening guests arrived.” They they chose who would go to whom, who I refused, they locked me in a room, they gave me pills. I don’t know what it was.
I don’t I remember what happened at night. Other The woman described how she was forced participate in the video, threatening that will send this to her family. Both were talking about lost passports, impossibility leave the villa, permanent change staff and complete isolation. described threats, pressure and extreme stress fatigue.
In both cases, get free it only took a few weeks to achieve this after the intervention of third parties or have a successful escape. The police refused register the application. Names organizers mentioned in their stories, coincided with those already known in the Zavadskaya case, in particular the same Said, and also Majid Al-Asiri.
About the last one it is known that he figured in documents as a sponsor of humanitarian fund in Jiddi and a member of the board of trustees council of a private medical center in Riad. As of spring 2020, it the location was not known. None of the names mentioned, none was included in international search. At Interpol stated that there were no grounds for initiating there is not enough work yet.
Ogneshka was buried in Warsaw on the 20th September. The ceremony was attended by about 300 people. Her mother and sister continue to participate in public shares and demand extradition suspects. A story that began with one body shore, gradually turned into a dossier with dozens of names, disappearances in different countries and traces transnational scheme.
But even so availability of facts, witnesses and documents the investigation ran into political, diplomatic and legal barriers. By mid-May 2020 years at the disposal of the Polish side there was correspondence between employees Alpht Beauty Group and two girls from Serbia and the Czech Republic. These materials were provided by a private digital group analytics acting at the request of the family Zavadsky.
The analysis showed that communication was carried out through fake profiles created in less than a week before first contact. On behalf of the account, allegedly representing the agency, The girls were offered filming in Dubai with payment for flights and accommodation. Texts messages were identical to those previously Agnieszka received.
The address given as The meeting place in Dubai coincided with apartments in the Marina residential complex Crown Tower, the same ones that featured in financial documents, like Office Alphart Beauty Group. When the specialists digital analysts analyzed data on cellular activity in the area residential complex Marina Crown Tower, in on the night of August 23-24 they activity of three devices was recorded, previously seen in similar investigations related to disappearances of women in Qatar and Bahrain.
One of the devices was registered in the name of Abdullah bin Saleh. Al-Harbi, a Saudi citizen Arabia, who previously worked in the IT sector in RIADE. According to European intelligence agencies, he was under surveillance in connection with participation in financial transactions with offshore companies, but not officially was listed as a wanted person.
Analysis of the boundary data showed that a man with a passport in the name of Al-Harbi entered the United Arab Emirates during the specified period. However, on the day after the disappearance of Zavadskaya, he arrived in the country a passenger with a different name who used a photograph that matches the archival one image of Al-Harbi, recorded in one of the visa application databases.
This same one the man later left the country private board. issued through logistics company Glf Horizon. Cellular device data, registered in the name of Al-Harbi, showed that it was connected to closed administrator node video surveillance systems of the yacht club in Dubai Marino area. This is a connection happened shortly before the archive was deleted surveillance cameras recording the yacht, which the darling sat down.
Experts confirmed that the data deletion was done manually through direct access, and not as a result of a failure or technical errors, as previously claimed port representatives. These facts have become key to subsequent expansion investigations. Name of Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Harbi also appeared in documents, concerning the rental of residential premises, used as time points accommodation of women invited to filming.
One of these objects was located in the same Marina Crown complex where Device activity has been detected. Financial transactions related to this address, were conducted through fictitious accounts, registered in an offshore jurisdiction. Pay in cryptocurrency with using anonymized digital wallets. Despite accumulated materials, UAE law enforcement agencies do not confirmed the fact that Al-Harbi was on their territory.
None of the above names were not included in the wanted list Interpol. At the request of the Polish side a formal response followed, in which it was indicated that there were no grounds for the detention of the mentioned persons is not presented. As of today, the case is about Gneshka Zavadskaya is officially closed. The cause of death is listed as drowning.
The suspects have not been arrested. Extraditions did not follow. No country, involved in the investigation, not achieved prosecution organizers or participants of the scheme. Most of the companies featured in documents, liquidated. Access to The data is blocked, the assets are withdrawn. Materials collected within the framework journalistic and international investigations confirm the presence organized scheme with features human trafficking, forced retention and systematic concealment of traces.
However, in the absence of political will, extradition mechanisms and direct evidence international legal the system was unable to provide justice. That’s all for now, friends. Write Leave your opinion in the comments thumbs up if you I liked it, and see you soon in the new ones video. Friday, July 16, 2021, at 7:38 AM stormwater system operator in the morning Dubai Municipality’s sewerage department reported about a malfunction in the industrial zone Dear Al-Qudra.
Arrived at the scene the emergency team opened one of collectors near the unfinished warehouse building. Inside, 35 m away At the entrance they discovered a naked body women. According to the official statement police, the body was in a state partial decomposition, the face was disfigured, hair partially burnt, There were traces of chemical burns on the skin.
The employee who was the first to go down collector, later said in an interview: “I I thought it was a mannequin until I saw it nails.” The scene was cordoned off. for 2 hours. There were police and medics at the scene. and prosecutors. Pressuli. The first leaks appeared on social media, photos canvas bag next to a special car and comments about the found models.
On the same day it became known, that the body belongs to a twenty-five-year-old Brazilian citizen Laura Monteiro. A Dubai Police spokesman confirmed her death at the evening briefing, not naming the reasons. To the journalists who gathered at the Brazilian consulate, they didn’t give me any comments. However, in the modeling world information has already begun to circulate.
Several girls wrote the same thing in their stories: “We warned you.” A day later, Laura’s account was blocked, but by that time her last location, street Al-Hajar on the outskirts of the Al-Sfou district, has already been captured on hundreds screenshots. Laura Monteiro, 25 years old, SanPu.
Officially she was freelance model who worked with several South American agencies. Unofficially she often appeared at private shows in Mexico, Marbella and London. She found herself in Emirates at the invitation of Almisk, a brand, positioning itself as a line luxury perfumes. The contract was for 10 days from June 6 to June 16.
She arrived in Dubai one with a transfer in Madrid. checked into a hotel on Jumeirah Beach, but the very next day I moved in private villa. Her posts included a swimming pool, martinis, parties and a yacht with a berth in To Marina. The last post was on June 11th. Photo by the pool with the caption: “Today will be unrealistic.
” After that came silence. Relatives in Brazil said about her disappearance after 5 days. By official version, contract with the brand Almisk was not registered in the UAE, but the agency that connected Laura with client, ceased its activities shortly before her departure. No calls They responded, but the site was closed.
Mobile Laura’s phone hasn’t been online since the evening of the 11th June. The hotel reported that she discharged. The address of the villa where she spent the last days, was rented on behalf of Al Mansour Luxury Properties. Villa listed as free. Officially the investigation began only after after the body was found, 33 days after her disappearance.
By that time Most traces have disappeared. The villa is already changed tenants. On the territory New cameras were installed and security was strengthened. Representatives of the rental company declined to comment. IN In unofficial circles this place has long been was known by the code name Port Apathy.
In the modeling world, this meant villas where girls were invited to private parties. Invitation resembled a contract for a photo shoot or advertising, but the program was different. This there were closed parties with isolation, ban on phone calls and filming in unregistered conditions. Availability chemical burns on Laura’s body confirmed the forensic expert in his report July 20.
In addition to skin damage, there were signs of sexual abuse, dehydration, lack of medical assistance and the presence of substances in the blood, not registered in the UAE. Some components, painkillers and sedatives, can only be found in clinics or through military supplies. One of the toxicologists who wished remain anonymous, he said in an interview Spanish publication: “This is not a street chemistry.
Someone used it regularly in controlled conditions. According to data According to the investigation, the villa belonged to a company, associated with businessman Khaled Al-Mansuri. At that time he was 48 years. He was registered as the owner three luxury properties and appeared in the documents as a consultant for real estate investments and high humanitarian initiatives.
June 23, 12 days after the last Laura’s appearance, Al-Mansouri flew away from countries by private jet from Sharjah to Geneva. His name did not appear in any one wanted database, and a warrant for his arrest was not issued. Investigation limited to a few searches and closed interrogations of staff. Police stated that she did not find any in the Villa evidence of a crime.
Local media soon they stopped covering this case. The Brazilian side sent an official request to the UAE Public Prosecutor’s Office and I received a response after 3 months. In it it was said that there was no evidence forcible detention or connection between Laura Monteira and the owner real estate. At this point, it seemed like the whole thing was over, but after 2 weeks an event happened, which changed the course of the investigation.
Name Laura Monteira quickly disappeared from International agenda. There is no news it was, the accounts were deleted, and even hashtags related to it started disappear from search results. But one of her friends, twenty-seven-year-old Julia Fonseca, also a model from Sao Paulo, is not believed the version about the private incident.
She became key the source where it all began. Julia lived in the same area as Laura, and starred in the same projects. Last once they communicated on the evening of June 11th video communication. Laura showed that is located in a house with marble floors. On There are glasses on the table, and there are six in the room people: three men, two girls and one a girl from Ukraine named Kristina.
Julia didn’t remember the last name, but she remembered dialogue. Laura whispered that she didn’t knows how to give up evening programs because I already received fee. The connection was lost after a minute. After that there was silence. At first Julia wrote directly to Laura, then through mutual acquaintances, and then to an agent in London, who introduced them to this client. But the agent did not answer.
In 3 days later her account was deleted. In 6 days Her phone number was disconnected. Then Julia contacted the Brazilian consulate in Dubai and began publish information in your Instagram. One of the posts received more than 20,000 reposts. It was a photograph Laura’s with the caption: “She didn’t disappear, her taken away.
” After that, Julia received first anonymous message. It was screenshot of a conversation in which another a girl nicknamed Tamara Italy wrote: “I was there in January, it’s not photo shoot.” They contacted her. The girl agreed to call via VPN. Her name was Tamara Rosini, 23 years old, from Bergama.
According to her, she was brought to commercial event in Dubai agency Mediterraneo Promo, with which She worked there before. It wasn’t in the contract nothing suspicious. He covered flight, accommodation and a fee in the amount of 5,000 euros. I met her upon arrival driver, and at the airport she signed additional agreement, agreement on non-disclosure agreement in which the following were indicated fines for filming and transmitting information.
Then she was taken to the villa. According to her description, she was on the same street, was built in the same style and had exactly the same details: black curtains, no cameras inside, and security at the gate. There were men at the dinner, according to her in words, not tourists and not locals, good dressed, some with bodyguards.
She tried to refuse to participate in intimate part, after which she was locked in room. Tamara claimed that on the next morning she was taken to the suburbs, where she signed an agreement on non-disclosure and received a ticket home. Her documentary history is not confirmed, but this was the first case, when direct communication was established between the villa and acts of violence.
Straightaway After her story, three more people came forward girls from Colombia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. They also spoke about the events. which started as private photo sessions, but ended with isolation, filming with men, confiscation of phones and threats. Again the exact location, the same drivers, the same security guards.
Then in The Amsterdam court intervened in the matter human rights organization Safeline International. Its representatives began collection of evidence. In August 2021 they sent a report to Interpol at least twelve similar cases. All related to the arrival of young women in Dubai. All under contracts with non-existent companies, all with the same routes and consequences.
Eight girls reported violence, three reported that they were drugged. One of the private detectives working in Europe and cooperating with Seilai, went to the UAE under cover. His name It is not disclosed, but it is known that he received copies of the correspondence between the models and two contacts from the Elit WhatsApp group Dubai Promo.
They used fake ones logos of genuine brands and sent contracts, PDF files without recourse addresses. They were divided on this matter. The official investigation in the UAE remains pending closed. The police said no. evidence of a crime. But in Europe through Interpol and Europol. In September, they detained in Amsterdam Bulgarian Simeon T.
He was listed as intermediary, namely as a recruiter. His the testimony became the first official document where the name was mentioned Al-Mansuri. He said he didn’t know, why were these trips actually made, but contacts were given to him by people connected with investment fund in Dubai. During During interrogation, he admitted that since 2018 sent at least 19 to the Emirates girls.
It is through this contact Dutch police received addresses rented villas, names of drivers and lawyers who were involved contracts. All the traces led to one and the same structure Alman Sur Luxury Properties registered to British Virgin Islands. When investigation in Europe has begun to gather specific data, it became clear that Laura Monteira’s case was not the first and not the only one.
Via Safeline International and Europolno at least 24 cases of disappearance or complaints from girls who visited Dubai similar contracts with non-existent companies. In eight cases there were sexual assault allegations. In three in some cases there were medical reports, indicating signs of treatment from drug addiction. Almost all cases began the same way.
Email with an offer exclusive photo shoot, which was Attached is a PDF document with the contract, information about the full cost of tickets business class and local support. No one of the agencies did not have a license and calls were not answered for a week after the models left. Girls the same ones were delivered to the villas drivers.
At least two of them appeared in photographs. The cars were with temporary numbers. There are no buildings inside there were cameras, but the doors were locked from the inside. Girls were allowed move only when accompanied administrators, and their mobile phones the devices were confiscated for the purpose of customer safety.
Investigation, launched in September 2021 by Europol, showed that these villas belonged investment fund Arс International Group, registered in the Virgin Islands islands. The funds were serviced by legal Almanar Legal Consultants firm, officially operating in Dubai. Through this channel was used for short-term contracts rental agreements for a period of 3 to 5 days.
The contracts were concluded with fictitious by Arcana Group, Zia Concept and SFIW Events. None of them had employees of bank accounts in the UAE or any means of communication. Girls, who testified, claimed that they were kept in closed rooms for several days. Each program the party included a photo shoot after which guests were asked to provide additional services, and refusals are not were accepted.
Some witnesses showed that it is possible that food and drinks some substances were added. One of victims, a twenty-year-old Czech model, She said that she woke up 2 days later after the party, and then they sent her video and threatened to publish it. There was enough evidence to refer the case to the Dutch prosecutor’s office and France.
But the problem was jurisdiction. All crimes, even if the victims were citizens of other countries, were committed on the territory of the UAE, where Laura’s case had already been officially closed. There was cooperation between the authorities complex. For every official request They answered: “There are no grounds for criminal prosecution.
” persecution.” Meanwhile, in November 2021 French investigative journalist Guillaume Fire published an extensive article in Lemond an article in which he presented six independent evidence. Photos interiors of the villas, matching those Laura published, as well as an analysis movement of funds through Aris International Group.
According to Fre, some payments were made through offshore accounts serviced by the bank in Geneva. The recipients of the funds were companies directly linked to Khaled Al-Mansuri. It gets worse. One of IT specialists who previously worked in Almanar Legal Consultants, provided a copy of the encrypted backup servers.
After decryption using German specialists were received correspondence and schedule archives events. They showed that during the period from 2019 to 2021, it was carried out as at least 47 closed events, in in which about 200 took part girls from South America, East Europe and Southeast Asia. German researchers have found that some IP addresses from which the exchange took place information, matched the addresses, used for booking air tickets and visas in the name of Al-Mansuri.
One of these addresses, used from a hotel in Zurich, also featured in banking transactions totaling 160,000 euros. The money was transferred to the account law firm paying rent villa in the Emirates. In December 2021 The Swiss prosecutor’s office began investigation into money laundering. The bank account was frozen. It was the first real blow to the entire structure.
However, by that time Al-Mansuri himself has already disappeared from any jurisdiction where it could interrogate. According to operational information, he was in Laos, then on private yacht in the Indian Ocean, after why it disappeared from the radar. But even in his In the absence of the structure continued work.
On modeling forums they began new offers from the same people appear agencies, only now under different names names. The list of destinations did not include not only Dubai, but also Riyadh, Manila and Abu Dabi. Then they got involved in the matter American investigators from the department to combat human trafficking. It is they received direct payment in January 2022 a recording from the phone of one of the victims, which managed to remove the device.
By According to experts, this video has become key evidence for the future court. The video lasted 21 minutes. It was Filmed in vertical format, without sound. The camera was hidden in the lining of the bag. Only part of the room is visible, tiled the floor, the bottom of the table and men’s shoes. The footage shows a woman in in a tight black dress stands at walls while she was being searched.
In the room three men. One in gloves, the other holds a tablet. The girl is asked to take off shoes, and then they take them away. Next is the camera shows the corridor, shadows from the lamps and logo on the wall, gold letters Sapire Nights. The video was received from a citizen Colombia, which, according to investigators, was able to escape from Dubai with with the help of a Spanish diplomat.
She refused to give public testimony, but provided copies of tickets and correspondence and GPS recordings. This information coincided with materials previously obtained Europol. The location where the video was filmed was identified as a villa in the area Alsuhur, who has already featured in in the case of Laura Monteiro.
At the time of analysis the property was registered as leased by Anor Holdings, registered in Belize. Investigators discovered that Aloldings was used for rental at least three properties in the UAE, one in Bahrain and another one in the Maldives. Contacts in contracts have again led to structures associated with Khaled Al-Mansuri.
His name, which is still not appeared in the orders, became central to the dossier, prepared Swiss prosecutor’s office. In February 2022 A search was conducted in an office in Geneva. one of the investment funds stone Capital AG. In the documents seized during operations, there were payment orders, showing that through subsidiaries More than 3 million were transferred to the company euros to pay for real estate rent, PR services and protocol support.
One of the internal reports said this line: exclude contacts until end Subfire 07 project. Below was a list of names Monteira, Rosini, Vasilenko and Landau. All of them appear in the investigation as victims. Investigators found out that the project Safire 07 is the code name of the series parties that took place in Dubai this summer 2021.
That’s when I arrived Laura. Investigators also found out that The villa’s administrator was Hamid Atar, a thirty-five-year-old Egyptian citizen, former security guard at luxury hotels in Cairo. His name appeared on the payment slips. documents and several letters. In one of them he directly describes the scheme. Girls delivered in advance without any contact with clients before their arrival.
U Their phones and documents are taken away. There is security both outside and inside the villa. For 6 a report is required hours before the start readiness. Hamid was arrested in March 2022 in Cyprus, where he arrived as tourist. He was extradited on an Interpol warrant. Geneva. He gave partial testimony, confirming that he worked for Alrh Holdins, but didn’t know what was going on inside.
He claimed that he was doing logistic functions, received instructions via Telegram and communicated only with intermediaries. However, his The readings made it possible to reconstruct the circuit. Recruitment took place through fictitious modeling agencies. Premises were rented through offshore legal entities faces.
The staff was hired under contract without official registration. After the events, all traces, documents, Clothes and electronics were destroyed. The girls were taken away either voluntarily, if they remained silent, either under threat of blackmail. One of the former victims, a Ukrainian citizen, living in the Czech Republic, gave a detailed interview German TV channel.
She told, that she was given during her stay in the house sedatives, called the doctor twice, and one day she was locked without water for a whole day. There were cameras in the room, but the recordings they didn’t show her. According to her, the girl named Laura, arrived later, was quiet, tried not to argue, and after 2 She was taken away the next day and never returned.
This the information has not been officially confirmed, but coincides with the last days of life Laura Monteiro. In April 2022 Investigators in Geneva conducted a second Checking Jamstone Capital AG servers. IN one of the archives, dated January, They found video footage of one of the events. 32 clips without sound, encrypted.
One the file contained a fragment on which was a girl who looks like Laura. dressed like this the same as in her last story. Recording was not made public, but appeared in in fact, as a direct visual proof of participation. According to investigators, the recording was made with using the internal system video surveillance, had timestamps and confirmed, that Laura was in this room at least 2 days after your disappearances.
But the key evidence was letter. In May, the Brazilian embassy in Abu Dhabi received a regular letter without return address. There was a flash drive inside and three handwritten lines. They didn’t kill her. straightaway. They waited until the client left. The flash drive was immediately sent to the Ministry Foreign Affairs of Brazil, and then in Federal Prosecutor’s Office.
File on a flash drive was videotaped from a stationary camera. 14 minutes without sound. Dark room, concrete walls, metal bed. There is a girl sitting on the floor with her hands tied with your back and hands. In appearance it is Looks like Laura Monteira. Her face swollen, bruised left cheek. She breathing heavily.
Most of the time she does not move. At the end of the recording to her a man approaches. His silhouette in the shadows only a fragment of the hand is visible. Recording breaks off. Brazilian Judiciary laboratory and independent experts Europol confirmed the authenticity of the video. Judging by the timestamp and metadata, it was filmed on the night of June 12-13, the day after Laura disappeared.
This discovery changed classification of the case. Now it was not a question of just about death as a result of an accident case, but about intentional deprivation freedom followed by murder. The investigation has intensified. At An international organization was created in Europol investigation coordination center, in which included representatives of the prosecutor’s office Brazil, Switzerland, France, Netherlands and Germany.
In June 2022 They published a joint report. It was there that the phrase was first heard: “Transnational network for exploitation women with signs of organized criminal structure operating under covering up legal entities, registered in offshore jurisdictions. A total of 41 victims have been identified. 15 of them gave official testimony.
Seven are missing. Laura Monteira was recognized as the first official a victim whose death was due to violent actions were proven. Organization, behind her disappearance, continued to remain in effect until at least April 2022. Khalet al-Mansuri remained the main suspect in the case. According to data investigators, he traveled through private airports and used the services transport companies that do not require identity cards.
His The location could not be determined. IN early July 2022 Swiss The prosecutor’s office issued an international warrant for his arrest. Al-Mansouri was accused of organizing a network for sexual exploitation, money laundering, illegal detention, causing grievous bodily harm bodily harm and complicity in murder.
One was arrested in August of his confidants, Ziad A, citizen Lebanon, who held the position HR consultant at Gamstone Capital AG. He admitted that he was in charge logistics of movements, participated in accommodation of guests and provision confidentiality of events. His The testimony completed the picture. The trial has begun in February 2023 in Geneva.
Meetings were held behind closed doors. Accusation based on over 300 pages evidence, including banking transactions, photographs, videos, copies of letters and encrypted messages in chats. The main episode was death Laura Monteiro. The court acknowledged the facts violent detention, application drugs, sexual violence, physical exhaustion and leaving helpless.
Forensic experts confirmed that the injuries received incompatible with life in the absence of immediate medical care. Five accused, all from the second echelon The network’s management were convicted. The maximum sentence is 32 years in prison. Court separately noted that the main the organizers are outside the jurisdiction and continue to evade the investigation.
The public reacted very strongly violently. In Brazil, the theme of disappearance Laura appeared in the media again. Her mother spoke at a rally in Sao Pulu. In the UAE none of the officials commented on the case. Structures, those involved in the case were disbanded or renamed. However, the investigation It didn’t end there.
In 3 months After the verdict, the police seized laptop from an apartment on the outskirts of Vienna. He was found during an unrelated search with Al-Mansuri. There were 32 in the Archive 02 folder file. Among them were contracts, photos and list of girls, dated April 2023. Two names were already on the list of missing unknown.
The folder was created after 3 weeks after the trial. This confirmed that the network was not destroyed, its structure adapted. Some suspects hid, while others remained in the countries, who do not cooperate with Interpol. Investigators acknowledged that the scale The phenomenon turned out to be greater than expected. Conclusion: About what happened to Laura Monteira, the world only found out because her body was found.
The rest disappear without a trace. Modern criminal networks often use legal ones business structures, fake agencies and offshore companies. Bureaucratic barriers, weak international pressure and diplomatic secret of the Persian countries the gulf creates conditions for complete impunity. This investigation shows how women are vulnerable when their right to freedom and life depend on the signed PDF file and the lack of official licenses.
The system failed to protect Laura and most likely won’t be able to protect others if nothing else will change.
