Polish Makeup Artist Vanishes at Dubai Party; Body Surfaces 3 Days Later…

Polish Makeup Artist Vanishes at Dubai Party; Body Surfaces 3 Days Later…

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At 6:42 a.m. on August 26, 2019, fishermen fishing in the coastal area of ​​the Emirate of Sharjah discovered a woman’s body in the water.  It was partially naked, its hair was matted, and two symmetrical lacerations were visible on the inner surface of its thigh .  The body was in an early stage of decomposition.

  There were no documents on it . Police arrived at the scene 27 minutes later. Officers surrounded the area of ​​the shoreline but made no statements until a preliminary examination was completed. Local media reported the discovery only two days later, limiting themselves to one line in the evening edition.  The body of a young woman was found.

  There were no comments about the identity of the deceased .  Seven hours after the body was discovered, the morgue at Sharjah General Hospital confirmed that the body belonged to Agnieszka Zawadzka, a 28-year-old Polish citizen who was staying at the One and Only Royal Mirage hotel when she arrived in Dubai .

  Her disappearance was recorded by the hotel on August 23, when she failed to return for breakfast and did not hand over her room keys.  Her luggage remained untouched.  The reception received one call from an unknown man at 8:00 am.  He stated that the girl had extended her stay.  At this point contact with her was lost.

  The hotel reported it missing two days later.  Police opened a file, but active action only began after the body was discovered.  Agnieszka Zawadka, a Polish citizen, professional makeup artist, and blogger, ran a popular Instagram account dedicated to decorative cosmetics.  The last post was dated August 22 and was made from a yacht off the coast of Dubai.

  She arrived in the UAE 5 days before her disappearance.  According to Emirates Airlines, her ticket was issued at the invitation of Alf Beauty Group, a Dubai-based company specializing in the supply of cosmetics from Saudi Arabia.  The filming contract was verbal.  She told her pen pal that she would be working with a private team of makeup artists at a closed brand presentation and that the shoot would take place on a yacht and then in the desert.

  She stopped communicating on the evening of August 23rd.  According to the hotel receptionist, the creature left the hotel around 1930 on the night of its disappearance. She was wearing a white dress and carrying a small clutch.  CCTV footage captured her getting into a dark grey Mercedes V-Class with Saudi Arabian license plates.

  The driver was wearing a white déjdash and tinted glasses.  After that, contact with her was lost.  The investigation began with a request from her family in Warsaw. Two days after losing contact with Agnieszka, her sister Molgazata Zawadka contacted the Polish consulate in Abu Dhabi.  Based on a diplomatic note, a request was sent to Dubai to initiate a search.

  Over the next two days, no official action was taken by the Emirati side. Only after contacting the international press and publishing a short article in the Polish newspaper Viborcha did Dubai police submit a request to One in Only and obtain CCTV footage .  However, a day later, the video recording from the yacht where the party was supposedly taking place disappeared from the Dubai Marina Club’s internal CCTV network.

  Dubai police said the footage was not saved due to a technical error.  Authorities refused requests for a list of guests on the yacht, citing confidentiality.   A spokesman for the Emirates Criminal Intelligence Agency said the alleged party participants had left the UAE.  According to airport data, four Saudi Arabian citizens departed on a charter flight from Dubai at 6:00 a.m.

 on August 24, less than nine hours after Zavadskaya last appeared on hotel cameras.  Their identities have not been officially disclosed. A forensic examination conducted in Sharjah stated in its report that the cause of death was drowning under unclear circumstances. However, independent forensic experts invited by the Polish side noted traces of strong pressure in the neck area, microcracks in the ribs, and the presence of blood in the abdominal cavity.

  In addition, internal hematomas were found on the body .  incompatible with normal mechanical trauma from falling into water. Findings regarding possible sexual abuse were not included in the final version of the document.  The police did not initiate a criminal case. Only an administrative case regarding the death of a foreign citizen was registered.

  At this stage, the investigation practically stopped. Only after public pressure from the family of the deceased and publications in the Polish, British and French press did the story gain international attention.  A Justice for Ogneshka movement emerged online, with members publishing testimonies from other women who had received similar offers for fashion shoots in the Persian Gulf.

Several posts contained information about a specific company, Alf Beauty Group. Some claimed that contact took place through intermediaries, and the meeting was arranged not in an office, but in a hotel or private apartment.  On Polish territory, the Centre for Combating Human Trafficking and Organised Crime has become involved in the case.

Signs began to emerge that Ogneshka Zavadskaya’s case was not an isolated one. Several young women who had previously visited Dubai and Bahrain on similar invitations confirmed that they had encountered strange situations: isolation from contacts, confiscation of passports, and pressure from organizers. However, no formal complaints were filed.

Most chose to remain silent.  Formally, Zavadskaya’s case remained closed. The perpetrators have not been identified.  Evidence lost, investigation suspended. However, in December of that year, journalists from the British publication The Observer obtained internal correspondence between employees of the logistics agency Golf Aviation, which serviced the charter flight from Dubai to Jeddah on August 24.

  The flight commentary included the initials of one of the passengers, Majid Al-Asiri, a Saudi Arabian businessman associated with several charities in Dubai.  Against this background, a new detail came to light .  The Alf Beauty Group company was registered at a legal address that also housed four other companies involved in real estate rentals, guardianship of minors in immigration matters, and logistics.

  All of them were linked to the same IT company registered in the UK. An analysis of accounting documents revealed that funds were moved between them through a chain of shell accounts.  This discovery sparked an international investigation, but by that time the main figures had already disappeared.  One of the intermediaries, who called himself Said in correspondence with the Czech model, was identified as a Yemeni citizen who had previously worked in a modeling studio in Beirut.

  He left the UAE in mid- September, flying to Cairo.  So far, none of the suspects have been detained.  The story of Gnezhka Zavadskaya remains unsolved. Although evidence points to the involvement of an organized group, the Polish police have not officially commented on the case since November 2019.

 In the second half of December 2019, an investigative team from the Polish Center for Combating Human Trafficking sent an official request to Dubai to hand over copies of surveillance footage from the port where the yacht involved in the Zavadskaya case was moored.  There was no response.  Two weeks later, in early January, information emerged that the server containing the video surveillance archive had been subject to external interference, and data for the relevant period had been lost.

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  A port employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said the recordings were likely manually deleted 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 start of a formal investigation.

  At the same time, interrogations of Agnieszka’s friends, colleagues and subscribers were carried out in Warsaw.  One of the key figures was Natalia Petrek, a make-up artist who received two offers from the same company, Alf Beauty Group.  In both cases, the contact began on social media through an account that positioned itself as an independent agency working with Middle Eastern brands.

  In a conversation with journalists, Natalia noted that the tone of the communication was professional. The proposals were accompanied by scans of tickets, a list of tasks for the shoot, the expected fee, and accommodation in a five-star hotel.  However, she was alarmed by the requirement not to bring accompanying persons and the lack of a legal contract.  She refused.

  It was later blocked.  In January 2020, amid media pressure, a temporary working group was created at Europol.   A few weeks later, matches were found in the Europol database between the disappearances of women in the Emirates of Qatar and Bahrain with a similar profile.  There have been at least nine similar cases over the past four years.

  All of them included a job invitation from an informal agency, tickets, accommodation in luxury hotels, and disappearance within the first 24 hours of arrival.  Three were found dead.  One is in the port of Manama, another is off the coast of Ras Al Khaimah, and the third is in the desert area near Abu Dhabi.  In two cases, the cause of death was listed as undetermined.

Only in Zavadskaya’s case were there signs of violent death.  A study of financial transactions through collaboration with analysts in the Netherlands identified an intermediary company, Golf Horizon Logistics, which serves several small charter carriers in the region.  The entity was reported as providing transport and crew for private events.

  One of her orders coincided in date with a party at which Zavadskaya was spotted.  The contract was drawn up in the name of a company registered in the Seychelles.  Payment was made in cryptocurrency.  The names of the customers were missing.  In March, journalists from LeMond obtained an internal French intelligence service file , classified as confidential, detailing connections between Middle Eastern businessmen and the grey market modeling industry in Europe.

  Among the names mentioned is one of the partners of the same Afakht Beauty Group.  The documents spoke of the possible recruitment of women under the guise of filming, subsequent detention, sexual violence, and coercion into private meetings with high-ranking officials.  Meanwhile, Agnieszka’s story has gone beyond the journalistic field.

  The European Parliament has called on EU countries to temporarily restrict women’s travel to high-risk countries for such private contracts.   The  Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued recommendations to citizens traveling to the UAE, urging them to register through the consulate.

  However, this did not stop the flow of similar offers on Instagram and TikTok, where new posts continued to appear under the guise of beauty collaborations and fashion events .  Those who survived were only able to speak after being assured of anonymity.  We have gained access to audio recordings of the testimony of two women: a Lithuanian citizen and a Ukrainian citizen, whose names have been withheld at their request.

  They agreed to be interviewed on the condition that their faces and voices would be hidden.  One of them said: “I was met by a man in traditional clothing, but with an accent. He said he would take me to a hotel, but we stopped at some villa, took my phone and that was it. There were other girls there. They took pictures of us, then told us to go to the pool. In the evening, guests arrived.

 They chose who would go to whom, whoever refused, locked them in a room, gave them pills. I don’t know what it was. I don’t remember what happened at night. Another woman described how she was forced to participate in a video, threatening that it would be sent to her family. Both spoke of lost passports, the inability to leave the villa, constant staff changes and complete isolation.

 They described threats, pressure and a state of extreme fatigue. In both cases, they managed to get free only several weeks later after the intervention of third parties or a successful escape. The police refused to register the statement. The names of the organizers mentioned in their stories coincided with those already known in the Zavadskaya case, in particular the same Said, as well as Majid  Al-Asiri.

 The latter was known to have appeared in documents as a sponsor of a humanitarian foundation in Jeddah and a member of the board of trustees of a private medical center in Riyadh. As of spring 2020, his whereabouts were unknown. None of the names mentioned were on the international wanted list. Interpol stated that there were insufficient grounds to open a case.

Ogneshka was buried in Warsaw on September 20. The ceremony was attended by about 300 people. Her mother and sister continue to participate in public events and demand the extradition of the suspects. The story, which began with a single body on the shore, gradually evolved into a dossier with dozens of names, disappearances in various countries, and traces of a transnational scheme.

 But even with the facts, witnesses, and documents, the investigation encountered political, diplomatic, and legal barriers. By mid-May 2020, the Polish side had obtained correspondence between employees of Alphaxt Beauty Group and two women from Serbia and the Czech Republic. These materials were provided to a private company.

  A digital analytics team acting at the request of the Zawadzka family. Analysis revealed that the communication was conducted through fake profiles created less than a week before the initial contact. The account, purportedly representing an agency, offered the women shoots in Dubai, with airfare and accommodations included.

 The texts of the messages were identical to those Agnieszka had previously received. The address listed as the meeting place in Dubai matched an apartment in the Marina Crown Tower residential complex, the same one that appeared in financial documents as the Office of Alphart Beauty Group. When digital analytics specialists analyzed cellular activity data in the area of ​​the Marina Crown Tower residential complex, on the night of August 23-24, they recorded activity on three devices previously seen in similar investigations related to the

disappearances of women in Qatar and Bahrain. One of the devices was registered in the name of Abdullah Saleh Al-Harbi, a Saudi Arabian citizen who previously worked in the IT sector at RIA. According to European intelligence agencies, he was under  surveillance in connection with financial transactions with offshore companies, but was not officially listed as a wanted person.

An analysis of border data revealed that the person with a passport in the name of Al-Harbi did not enter the United Arab Emirates during the specified period. However, on the day of Zavadskaya’s disappearance, a passenger with a different name arrived in the country using a photograph matching an archived image of Al-Harbi recorded in one of the visa application databases.

 This same person later left the country on a private jet, arranged through the logistics company Glf Horizon. Data from a mobile device registered in Al-Harbi’s name showed that it was connected to a closed administrative node of the yacht club’s video surveillance system in the Dubai Marina area. This connection occurred shortly before the deletion of the archived surveillance cameras recording the yacht that Zavadskaya boarded.

 Experts confirmed that the data deletion occurred manually through direct access, and not as a result of a glitch or technical error. As previously stated by port officials,  These facts became key in the subsequent expansion of the investigation. The name of Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Harbi also appeared in documents related to the rental of residential premises used as temporary accommodations for women invited to the filming.

 One of these properties was located in the same Marina Crown complex where the device activity was recorded. Financial transactions associated with this address were conducted through shell accounts registered in an offshore jurisdiction. Payment was made in cryptocurrency using anonymized digital wallets. Despite the accumulated materials, UAE law enforcement agencies have not confirmed Al-Harbi’s presence in their territory.

 None of the names mentioned were included on the Interpol wanted list . The Polish side’s request received a formal response, stating that no grounds for the detention of the individuals mentioned were presented. As of today, the case of Gniezka Zavadskaya is officially closed. The cause of death is listed as drowning.

The suspects have not been arrested. There are no extraditions.  followed. Not a single country involved in the investigation has succeeded in prosecuting the organizers or participants of the scheme. Most of the companies mentioned in the documents have been liquidated. Access to data has been blocked, and assets have been withdrawn.

The materials collected through journalistic and international investigations confirm the existence of an organized scheme with signs of human trafficking, forced detention, and systematic cover-ups. However, in the absence of political will, extradition mechanisms, and direct evidence, the international legal system has proven incapable of ensuring justice. That’s all, friends.

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