SATANIC RITUALS IN DUBAI: What did the sheikhs do with women? 4 case

SATANIC RITUALS IN DUBAI: What did the sheikhs do with women? 4 case

October 2017, United Arab Emirates, 30 km south of Dubai.  On Friday, around 6 a.m., a local shepherd walking through the desert near the dry bed of the Wadibashar River saw the body of a woman lying in the sand.  The corpse lay on its side, partially covered with a piece of cloth, its fingers burned and clenched in a spasm.

  She had hardly any clothes left.  His face was disfigured by the blows.  The police arrived 37 minutes later.  At 9 a.m., the area was cordoned off.  A forensic team was working at the scene, and people wearing masks and backpacks were crawling around collecting evidence.  Images taken by a drone and published the next day on a private Telegram channel clearly show that the body had not been moved by the wind or animals, since it had been abandoned there.

  At first, everything followed the typical script of local crime news.  An anonymous victim, heat, trampled sand. But a name emerged the next day.  The Canadian embassy confirmed the identity.  The young woman was Noemí Sharpentier, 22, a Canadian citizen from Montreal, a fashion student at the University of Quebec, and a temporary resident in the United Arab Emirates on an internship visa.

  She had arrived as part of an international internship program between the university and a private company called Myon R. Six days earlier, on October 15, Noemí stopped communicating with her parents.  The last message recorded in his messaging system was, “I have a meeting today. I have to behave formally. I ca n’t miss it.

”  According to your provider, this message was sent at 3:08 pm.  Nine minutes later, his phone turned off. His location was traced to a villa on the outskirts of the Albaha district.  It was a house with white walls and a high concrete wall.  According to the Interior Ministry, the street CCTV cameras were not working due to technical failures.

  Noemí entered the house alone.  He didn’t come out.  An official press release issued by the Emirati police on October 23 stated that the cause of death was heatstroke.  The ambient temperature that day reached 41ºC. According to the forensic report, there were no signs of open wounds on the body, except for partially burned fingers.

Police found no signs of violent death.  The investigation was closed.  The body was handed over for repatriation, but in Montreal the parents were not satisfied with the heat stroke explanation.  They insisted on a second exam.  The second report was ready in 11 days.  It was carried out by three independent forensic experts from Quebec and Toronto.

According to their conclusions, Noemi’s death was caused by mechanical asphyxiation, that is, by suffocation.  In addition, signs of restraint were found on the body, characteristic bruises on the ankles and wrists.  And most importantly, the internal organs were missing . The liver, kidneys, and one kidney had been surgically removed.

   They had been cut with great precision, without any signs of laeration.   It wasn’t the work of animals, it was a surgical procedure.  This was soon reported by The Globe and Mail and Le Devoir. Photos surfaced, the report was leaked, and his father was interviewed. Canadian journalists requested the case files from the United Arab Emirates, but were denied.

Requests to the private company Myon Arrow went unanswered.  None of the employees of the Fashion House that had hired Noemí as an intern showed up.  The phones are not available.  The website has been removed.  The Dubai office has been unveiled.  According to information obtained by French journalist Frederick Buso, Mesoner was registered through an offshore company in the Virgin Islands.

  The sole nominal owner is a 30-year-old Czech citizen living in Prague who, it later emerged, has no connection to the fashion industry.  The University of Montreal confirmed that the internship program existed.  However, the legal basis of the contract turned out to be extremely vague.  It was signed in 2015 at the faculty level without the approval of the university’s legal department.

Correspondence with the host party was conducted through unofficial email addresses .  None of the department’s employees, including the internship coordinator, had ever met in person with representatives from Mason Air. New details soon began to emerge .  According to the Borderless Investigations Independent Journalism Association , in the last 4 years at least 15 students from France, Italy, Canada and South Korea have participated in a similar internship program.

Open sources indicate that they have all returned.  However, it has not been possible to establish contact with them. Their social media profiles have been deleted.  Their phones are inactive and even the Google CCH files are empty.  Some of the names, it has been discovered, were pseudonyms.

  According to information from the International Centre for Missing Persons, several girls are also listed as missing, but with different dates and in different countries. The investigation begins to take a different turn.  Noemí’s parents are asking Canadian federal authorities to launch an international investigation. A special unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is involved.

A working group is formed. Journalists find a new clue. One of the internship contracts with Maison R was signed on behalf of an office located in Geneva, Switzerland.  In November, a month after the discovery of the body, Frederick Besot receives a document, an extract from the Swiss register showing that Meson R has another subsidiary, Rlaps AG, registered as a biotechnology research center.

The address is an industrial area on the outskirts of the USA, the same legal owner, the same offshore chains.  Journalists are beginning to join forces.  In Paris, Montreal, Geneva, a new version emerges.  The practices may have been a cover for transporting women to the United Arab Emirates to undergo unauthorized medical procedures.

organ trafficking, experiments, elite clinics.  But all of this is nothing more than speculation. At this stage, the statements of the Emirati police officially stand. Heatstroke.  Natural causes.  Case closed.  Noemí’s body was buried in Montreal under the supervision of municipal authorities.

  But his family continues to seek a new investigation.  They don’t need an explanation.  They want the truth, and that apparently isn’t limited to a corpse.  The investigation resumed with an attempt to establish Noemi Sharpentier’s movements in the first few days after her arrival in Dubai. According to information provided by the  UAE Immigration Service, the young woman arrived in the country on October 9, 2017 on an Emirates flight from Toronto with a stopover in Amsterdam at the Dubai airport passport control.

He indicated the Millenium Al Barsha hotel as his temporary address , which was confirmed by the hotel records. The hotel cameras recorded his arrival every day until October 15th.  That day, at 2:50 p.m., he left the building, got into a white car with tinted windows, and drove away.  The license plate is illegible.

  This video recording was the last confirmed visual contact with Noemi.  The next day, the program coordinator in Montreal, Marie Claire Dubois, received a message from an unknown user sent from a temporary Telegram account.  It said, “Your student has cancelled her participation. The reasons are personal. Remove her from the program.

Confirm.”  Dubois ignored the message. He decided it was a mistake and didn’t think much of it .  He only found out about the young woman’s disappearance when her parents contacted the university 4 days later.  It was then discovered that Noemí’s email could not be accessed and that her WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger accounts had been blocked.

  Their Instagram and Twitter accounts were deleted in less than an hour on the afternoon of October 15.  The IP address from which the deletion was made belonged to a corporate network in the Dubai Marina area, registered to a company dedicated to logistics and pharmaceutical supplies. Meanwhile, a local investigation has been launched in Quebec.

Press journalists have contacted two former interns who worked at the same organization in 2016. One of them, whose name has not been revealed, agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.  According to her, the conditions of her stay were strange.  The participants were housed separately and were not allowed to have contact with each other outside the office.

  Their movements were monitored and their personal phones were confiscated for the entire duration of the internship, citing the confidentiality policy. The contract contained a clause on medical authorization in which the signatory accepted procedures to assess stress resistance.  and the emotional response.

  Upon arrival in Dubai, the participants were examined by a man who presented himself as a doctor from a clinic at the consulting center.  Afterwards, several of them were taken to a separate location where they participated in private shows.  The young woman did not give further details, claiming that she had signed a confidentiality agreement under threat of a fine and a lifetime ban from working in the sector.

  By then, an investigation by journalists from the ECB and the French publication Mediaapart had revealed that these practices were not only taking place in Dubai. A similar structure with the same communication style, similar contracts, and the same email addresses had already appeared in Italy in the 2000s and in Turkey in 2011.

  In both cases, information came to light about participants who disappeared in Istanbul.  One of the students, a Spanish national, disappeared without a trace days after her arrival.  The case was closed citing a possible escape.  It was later revealed that two years later he appeared under a different name on the Dubai scholarship recipients list.

  From there, his trail went cold.  Expanding the geographical scope of the investigation, the Borderless Investigations group began comparing company records.  Through publicly accessible offshore companies, they were able to establish a chain.  Mason R was part of a larger network that involved at least nine legal entities in Panama, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Estonia.

They are all linked through a single administrator, a Lebanese citizen named Mahmud Aruni.  Aruni was listed as the director of six entities, including the company that owned the car that took Noemí.  Aruni was registered as an international logistics specialist licensed to transport medical equipment.

  At the same time, journalists gained access to an internal letter from one of the Swiss banks sent in September of that year.  The letter referred to unusual financial activity in an account belonging to RLABS AG. Transfers totaling more than 2 million euros were made to the United Arab Emirates , Lebanon, and South Africa.

  The destination of the payments was listed as research needs, private medical expenses, and business consulting.  The beneficiaries were three names that had not previously appeared in the press.  Two of them enjoyed diplomatic immunity.  In December 2017, a man was arrested in Amsterdam while trying to fly to Qatar with a fake passport.

  A check revealed that he was using a Polish identity document, but his fingerprints matched those in the Interpol database.  It turned out to be Piero Matzini, an Italian who had previously worked for an international pharmaceutical company and was fired in 2014 after being accused of drug smuggling.  Matzini admitted that since 2005 he had been working with several private clinics specializing in palliative surgery and transplantology and that his work had always been related to the logistics of corpses.

  He denied any connection with Noemí Sharpentiera, but photos of documents with the girl’s name were found on his phone.  One of them was a page from an internship application form with her signature and the date.  His family confirmed its authenticity.  On his laptop’s hard drive was a file containing correspondence with representatives of RL LAPS that referenced the series 27.

 This term would later appear in another investigation, this time in Africa, where  unofficial clinical trials were being conducted with a drug that suppresses the immune response in patients after an organ transplant. While these details were being compiled into a dossier, everything officially remained the same in Dubai.

  The case was closed, there was no evidence, and foreign journalists were restricted from entering the country . In January 2018, the Canadian embassy issued a second statement demanding transparency and cooperation with an international investigation.   There was no response from the Emirates, but at that moment a key witness appeared.

  The name of the woman who decided to speak out was not initially revealed.  In the documents she appeared as Sara A. Later, after consulting with lawyers and with the support of the Human Rights Organization, Medical Whistle Blowers International, she gave a public interview with her full name, Sara Irene Arnold, 26 years old, a British citizen and former student of a design school in London.

  According to her, in the spring of 2016 she participated in an internship at Myonerre after being selected in an internal competition at her faculty.  The program included a three- week stay in Dubai, accommodation, transport and participation in the preparation of a private fashion show .  According to Sara, the reality turned out to be completely different.

  Upon arriving in Dubai, she was not accommodated in a hotel, as indicated in the documents, but in a private house on the outskirts of the Albarsha district.  There were already three other girls there from France, South Korea and Argentina.  All of their phones were confiscated during the confidential training period.

  The windows were covered with thick curtains. A security guard was watching your movements.  Every morning a car came to pick up the girls and take them to the center.  Sara remembers that the place looked like a laboratory. White walls, steel doors, no signs, and employees in uniforms without identification.   On the second day of their stay, they had blood drawn, tests done, and an ultrasound performed.

  They didn’t explain why.  Later, the girl was invited to a consultation where she was told she had excellent parameters and was offered a voluntary medical procedure in exchange for a large reward.  She refused. According to her, the Argentinian woman disappeared on the third day .  He left his belongings, but the bed was perfectly made, as if he had never been there.

  No one answered their questions.  Two days later, the French woman fell ill.  He had a fever and seizures.  They took her away and she was never seen again .  On the seventh day of her stay, Sara tried to escape.  At night she escaped through a service window and ran towards a residential neighborhood where a local woman picked her up .

  The next day, the girl found herself at the British consulate.   She has remained hidden ever since.  He was strongly advised not to contact the UAE Police.  His testimony was crucial.  Following the publication of his interview on the BBC, British law enforcement submitted a request to Interpol. Based on his testimony, an international investigation was launched into the activities of Mason Air and all related structures.

Canadian researchers confirmed the veracity of their data, including the location of the houses, the license plate numbers of the cars, and the internal layout of the center where the tests were conducted. Sara’s testimony also coincided with the conclusions of Swiss journalists who at that time had discovered a presentation by Rlabs AG in the archives of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, in which, under the pretext of ethical biomedical research, the work with donors between 20 and 30 years old who had given their

consent to participate in research involving invasive procedures was described.  Two months later, information was obtained about the transport of medical samples from the United Arab Emirates to Geneva.  The documents leaked by a customs informant contained references to category B organic samples sent to a clinic whose license had been suspended in 2012 following the publication of data on unauthorized transplants in 1990 patients from Saudi Arabia.

  The license was reinstated 3 years later .  In March 2018, Felix Van Usterh, a Belgian doctor listed as a consultant for RL LAPS AAG, was arrested in Geneva. Thirty-four files on young women were found on his laptop, including photos of Noemí Charpentier. The documents included scanned copies of questionnaires, medical histories, instructions for preparing for procedures, and signatures in Arabic.

  According to experts, the signatures may have been forged. Van Oster himself stated that he was unaware of the violent nature of the procedures and that he worked under contract with private clinics without asking questions.  The testimony of Osterhaute, Sara Arnold and the laptop documents formed the basis of the first criminal case opened in Switzerland under the article Trafficking in Human Beings for Medical Purposes.

  This was the first case in Europe in which investigators recognized the existence of an organized scheme disguised as educational programs and cultural exchanges.  The case involved seven countries, 15 legal entities and, according to preliminary data, at least 27 victims.  The investigation concluded that the network had been operating since at least 2010.

 At its center was a man whose name appeared in the reports under the pseudonym Rafael S. It was later revealed that he was Rafael Sadec, a French citizen and former employee of a private pharmaceutical company who had been fired for falsifying clinical data.  in the United Arab Emirates .  He was a member of the Board of Directors of R Global, a company registered in the Dubai free economic zone .

  However, when the investigation began, Rafael Sadec had disappeared.  His last known location was Abu Dhabi airport, where he boarded a flight to Johannesburg.  At the beginning of 2021 he was on the wanted list, but was not officially detained.  In May 2019, the trial against RLAPS began in a Swiss federal court.

  Of the 16 accused, seven were arrested.  The rest were tried in absentia.  Among them were two doctors, a logistics specialist, a translator, and a citizen of the United Arab Emirates, a former employee of a state clinic.  The trial lasted more than 6 months.  The case file mentioned at least 41 victims, including Noemí and Sharpentier.

Only eight of them were officially identified. The rest were listed as unidentified donors .  The prosecution requested that the organization be recognized as a criminal group that operated under the guise of educational institutions. The sentences were handed down in December 2019 .

  Van Osterh was sentenced to 8 years.  The company secretary received a 5-year sentence.  The others received sentences of between 3 and 6 years in prison.  The court acknowledged that the activities were criminal, but did not establish the full composition of the group.  Rafael Sadec remained free.  Noemí’s case was not formally reclassified.

The United Arab Emirates refused to hand over the case files or acknowledge the results of the independent investigation.  It seemed that everything was over.  But two months later, Lemond received a USB drive with an encrypted file.  He had been sent from South Africa.  Inside there were videos recorded with a hidden camera.

  One of them showed a woman resembling Naomi, sitting in a room tied up with straps.  In the background, uniformed medical personnel without badges could be seen.  The video was dated October 16, the day after her disappearance.  The USB drive sent to Elemond’s newsroom became a key element that cast doubt on the official version of Noemí Charpentier’s death .

  After decryption, forensic computer experts confirmed the authenticity of the metadata.  The recordings had not been edited and had been made with a miniature camera with automatic date and time stamping.  The first video recording lasted 15 minutes.  The camera was fixed, presumably under a table or a medical stretcher. The shot shows a room with gray walls, a metal wardrobe, and a stretcher.

  A girl in hospital clothes is tied to a chair.  Her face is bruised, but her parents identified her.   It was Noemi.  He was conscious and trying to say something.  Four minutes later, two people in white coats and masks appeared in the frame.  One of them was a man with a distinctive limp in his right leg.

  He reviewed some documents and gave instructions in English.  Under anesthesia, series 27. The recording then stops.  There were eight videos on the USB drive.  Five of them were documentary images of medical procedures performed without sterile conditions and with serious ethical violations.

  In the background, orders can be heard in English, French, and Arabic.  In some videos, the patients do not move, either because they are under anesthesia or because they are dead.  One of the files shows the moment when an organ, a kidney, is removed and placed in a container. The plastic box has a sticker with the logo of a private clinic in Cape Town.

  This institution did not have an official license to perform transplants.  According to information obtained from a former Interpol employee, later a political refugee in Germany, similar files had been recorded in closed investigations into illegal organ trafficking in Central Asia. Some of the people who appear in the video footage also appeared in operational reports in Türkiye, Kenya, and Kosovo.

  However, none of the cases reached the courts due to a lack of direct evidence or interference from local authorities. The USB drive was sent via a private courier company in an envelope with no return address.  The only clue was a South African postmark and a fingerprint that matched that of a woman named Nomulet Lamini, who had previously worked as a nurse at the private Gordon Medical clinic in Pretoria.

  Her address was listed in a police report filed after her disappearance in October 2019. Her whereabouts have been unknown ever since. Lemonde handed the file over to the Swiss prosecutor’s office .  The documents were also shown to Noemi’s parents.  They filed a new lawsuit against the United Arab Emirates, demanding official recognition of the murder.

 Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strongly worded statement calling Dubai’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation unacceptable and contrary to the foundations of international law. However, there was no response from the Emirates.  The statement from the Emirati Ministry of the Interior merely reiterated that the case is closed due to a lack of evidence of a crime and that the interference of foreign entities is not provided for under the legislation of the United Arab Emirates .  Meanwhile, in London,

Channel 4 journalists obtained a copy of an internal report from a non-governmental organization working in East Africa.  which described cases of medical expeditions by European specialists to Eswatini and Lesotho.  The documents contained names that matched those of people involved in the Rlaps case.

  One of them was Rafael Sadec.  According to local informants, he was in southern Africa under a false name, using a fake Portuguese passport. By the end of 2020, the investigation had taken on the characteristics of an international scandal.  However, from a legal point of view, many elements proved impossible to demonstrate.

  The USB drive could not be accepted as evidence in several countries due to the impossibility of establishing its origin and the legality of the images.  The people who appear in the video have not been officially identified.  Medical institutions in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates declined to comment. The key figures continued to hide.

In early 2021, journalists obtained an internal European Commission document, a draft report on the risks associated with international private practices in the fields of medicine, fashion, and design.  The document described risks similar to those in Noemi’s case and proposed the creation of a pan-European database to track educational programs outside the EU.

  However, the document was never officially published; it was considered sensitive due to the potential diplomatic consequences. To date, no state has acknowledged the existence of a systematic human trafficking network involving Mason R. However, several organizations, including Interpol, the WHO, and the Council of Europe, have confirmed the need to establish mechanisms to monitor international student mobility programs .

  The story of Noemi Sharpentier remains an example of how the inadequacy of international mechanisms allows shadowy structures to operate for many years. Trust in educational programs, the lack of intergovernmental verification of companies, and the unwillingness of some countries to cooperate with international investigations create ideal conditions for exploitation and the cover-up of crimes.

  Noemí’s family continues to fight to have the case reopened.  By June 2025, more than 300,000 people had signed their petition. However, none of the official UAE authorities have reviewed the case.  The death certificate still states that the cause of death was heat stroke.  And while new information continues to circulate through closed channels, the only thing left to do is remember that behind every attractive internship offer there may not be a program, but a scam, and behind the shiny facade there may be a windowless room where no

one can hear you scream. On February 18, 2022, in a desert area south of the Alcudra district, about 45 km from the center of Dubai, workers from a construction company discovered partially charred human remains. This happened at 9 a.m. while they were cleaning an old concrete building that had previously been used as a warehouse.

A skull appeared about 40 cm deep under the sand.  After the police arrived, a hole was discovered in which parts of a skeleton lay wrapped in a piece of melted synthetic fabric. Nearby they found metal wire with remnants of soft tissue, as well as fragments of charred bones from the pelvis and shoulder joint.

Separately, there was a plastic bag containing remnants of women’s clothing and burnt shoes.  The forensic examination confirmed that the remains belonged to a young woman of South Asian origin between 18 and 25 years old.  There were remnants of healed fractures in the left radius and a fracture in the occipital lobe of the skull.

  Thanks to DNA analysis carried out with the help of the Philippine consulate, it was established that the victim was Rosaline Bahid Lao, 19, from the province of Sebu, Philippines.  Her name first appeared in the migrant database in January 2020, when she obtained a work visa for the United Arab Emirates through a private agency registered in Manila.

According to a copy of the contract, Rosalyn was employed as a domestic worker in a private home in the residential area of ​​Emirates Hills.  His employer was a man whose name was not listed on the documents, only his initials.  The contract included accommodation, food, a monthly salary of 900 dirhams and a prohibition on leaving the property without the employer’s written permission.

  The last contact with her family was recorded on April 12, 2020. After that, Rosalyn stopped communicating.  Her mother, who lives in Cebu, contacted the agency several times and was told that the young woman had left her job voluntarily. A similar response was later sent to the Philippine consulate.  In May 2020, the family filed a missing person report.

Dubai police officially registered her , but no investigation was carried out . The reason was that there was no evidence of a crime.  According to the complaint, the employer stated that the young woman had run away with an unknown man, possibly Filipino, and declined to comment further.

  The conditions in which he lived were not checked, the security guards were not interviewed, and the video recordings were not analyzed.  The contract was considered closed. Rosalyn’s name appeared in the missing persons database. His family’s appeals went unanswered .  Two years later, after the discovery of the remains, the case was again registered as a death in unclear circumstances.

However, despite the examination results, injuries incompatible with life, traces of burns on the body, signs of concealment of evidence, no criminal investigation was initiated .  The prosecutor’s office had no comment. The family was not officially notified and learned of the incident from journalists who contacted them through a public organization that helps migrants.

  From January to April 2020, Rosalin lived in a temporary detention center for workers arriving on domestic work visas.  It was located in Sharjah.  There she shared a room with three other women.  One of them, Jeniln S., later stated that Rosalyn complained of disturbing phone calls from unknown people demanding that she behave and not ask questions.

After 8 days she was summoned to an administrative office where she signed some documents and was escorted out by two men.  Jenny never saw her again .  According to Philippine authorities, the agency that got him the job stopped operating in the summer of that year. All contracts were cancelled and the founding documents were destroyed .

Investigators who contacted former employees of the company confirmed that many documents had been drafted with violations. Women were sent to work before all stages of registration had been completed, sometimes without the addresses and names of their employers. When Rosalin’s body was found, there was no reaction from the authorities, no arrests, and no investigations.

His name was not mentioned in any official statement.  Even when her remains were identified, they were described as a citizen of the Philippines, identity established, relatives notified. Only independent human rights activists made the details public.  They also pointed out that it was not the first case of its kind.

  In two years, at least three women disappeared in the region, all under 25 years old, all from Southeast Asia, all working in private homes, and all passing through the same adaptation center. Rosalin’s family, having received no compensation, official apology, or confirmation of the murder, turned to international human rights organizations.

  One of the coordinators stated, “The authorities refuse to acknowledge that the death was the result of violence. They classify it as a disappearance that ended tragically without the involvement of third parties. At the same time, according to the examination results, the death was caused by a traumatic brain injury, suffered from a blow with a blunt object before the body was burned.

 Marks of restraint were found on the pelvic bones and shoulder blades. The ribs were broken in several places. The accident theory was ruled out. No personal belongings, phones, or documents were found near the body. However, experts found traces of blue detergent, typical of products used in domestic service in the Emirates, on a piece of fabric found in the same bag.

This indicated that the fabric belonged to a domestic worker’s uniform. Three weeks after the discovery of the body, one of the security guards who had previously worked in the Emirates Hills area told a private investigator that in March 2020, a minibus without license plates arrived at one of the houses at night.

 A girl described as possibly  Rosaline was taken out of the van. According to the security guard, the girl didn’t resist; she walked calmly. She was wearing house clothes and was barefoot. They took her out the back door. The security cameras weren’t working that night. A week later, no one saw her. When asked what had happened to her, the shift supervisor replied, “She left.

” The entry and exit logs were destroyed two months later, as required by regulations.  At that time, the investigation had no suspects, no court orders, and no access to surveillance camera footage. The house where Rosalyn was believed to be staying belonged to a legal entity registered abroad. Access was denied to the owners.

  The legal representative declined to comment, citing the diplomatic immunity of one of the residents.  The investigation continued thanks to the efforts of journalists and independent experts. They began to reconstruct the movements of the girls involved in the same logistics.

  It turned out that Rosalyn was neither the first nor the last.  After the official identification of Rosalin’s body, private investigators focused their attention on similar disappearances that occurred that same year.  According to their data, at least three women from Indonesia and the Philippines were officially hired through agencies with similar routes and conditions that included temporary accommodation in closed adaptation centers, no access to a telephone and unreliable contacts from employers.

Two of them stopped communicating in the spring of 2020. Family members sent inquiries, but received the same responses.  She left of her own free will.  There is no contact.  He may have left the country.  The agency has closed.  In all cases there was no official investigation, no registration in the missing persons database, and no visit by the police to the employer.

The details were similar.  In all cases, the same contact structure appeared .  an intermediary registered in the name of a citizen of one of the Southeast Asian countries, known for other cases of labor exploitation. His name, Jorge M., appeared in the contracts as curator.  After closing the main agency, he registered two more in the same Manila building, only changing the name.

  All legal entities were quickly liquidated, usually between 9 and 12 months after their opening.  There were no accounting records. Visa assistance was provided through partner agencies in the United Arab Emirates.  In one of the contracts obtained from an electronic file that was kept, the employer’s address matched the house where, according to security guards, Rosalyn was supposedly staying in March 2020.

Private investigators traced the logistics of the transport.  According to their assessment, there was a consistent pattern of young women being transferred from the Sharjah Adaptation Centre to various private residential buildings.  The same transport companies were involved in the transfer.  The vehicles were unmarked minibuses .

  One of the drivers agreed to talk about the routes.  According to him, the girls were not carrying documents, phones, or personal belongings.  They sat in the back of the vehicle and remained silent.  Upon arrival they were handed over to an escort, sometimes to the facility’s security personnel . He didn’t know what would happen next.

  In some cases he would wait on the street for an hour and a half and then return with the car empty.  The trail led to two addresses registered to fictitious companies that had been in operation for less than a year .  One of them was the same house in Emirates Hills where Rosalyn worked.  The second was a country house in the Albsha area, owned by a company that was listed on the contract of another missing Filipina.

According to information gathered by human rights activists, both women disappeared between two and three weeks after their arrival.  None of them opened a bank account at a local bank.  Their salaries were not officially paid.  According to their relatives, contact with them was lost immediately after their arrival.

  By autumn 2022, information had been gathered on at least eight such cases.  All the victims were women between the ages of 18 and 24 who arrived in the UAE between the end of 2019 and the spring of 2020. They all had the same routes, the same type of contact with the agency, and the same refusal by the police to take charge of their cases.

Most of them disappeared after they moved into private homes. A woman was returned to her country with a diagnosis of spinal injury and unable to move.  According to her, she could not speak about the cause of the injury.  His family members stated that he did not remember the week before his departure. New information came to light in January 2023.

  A woman who identified herself as a former employee of a house linked to one of the exact addresses claimed that the girls were being held in the basement. He said that one night he heard screams, but was told, “It’s the television.” He stated that one of the girls spoke with an island accent and had difficulty walking.

  A week later he had disappeared.  When they asked about her, the answer was brief.  They have moved her. Following this publication, journalists contacted a specialized technician who had previously provided  internal security system maintenance services in the same area. He stated that many homes in Emirates Hills had standalone video surveillance systems without remote access and that the data was stored locally.

When the police requested it, they often replied that the file had been deleted due to the statute of limitations. This made it impossible to obtain video footage if more than three months had passed.  In practice, this meant that none of the disappearances had been captured by the cameras despite their presence.

Later, a private organization investigating the network presented an electronic diagram of staff movements between agencies and the addresses where the missing people worked. At the center of this diagram was the same intermediary, Jorge M. He had registered the telephones that connected all the points of the route.

According to one of the records, he himself drove to meet the newcomers on the day of their arrival. Mobile phone operator records showed at least 14 such routes between January and April 2020. Their whereabouts remained unknown. According to border control databases , he left the country in July 2020 with documents issued in another jurisdiction.

Since then there has been no official trace of him, no arrest warrants, and no international search warrants. The reason is that there is no formal case.  None of the incidents were classified as crimes.  Only Rosalyn’s death was recorded as unnatural.  But even then, a full investigation was not carried out.

  In March 2023, one of the groups of independent experts presented a report to international observers on the systematic nature of the disappearances.   It identified patterns, names, routes, structures, and financial transfers.  Also noteworthy was the unusually high mortality rate among young women working in private homes with restricted access.

  In some cases, families recovered the bodies without any explanation. In one case, the body was not returned at all.  There was only one death certificate signed at a private clinic with no diagnosis. This information was ignored at the state level.  No public investigation was launched, and no charges were filed.

  All the organizations involved have officially ceased to exist. It is impossible to prove their connection. The documents have been destroyed.  The owners have left and the addresses no longer exist.  All that remains is a fragment of a body in the sand, a couple of photographs, the testimonies of the survivors, and a structure that has since undergone changes in its appearance.

  In the spring of 2023, journalists working on the case gained access to internal correspondence between an intermediary agency in Manila and the structure that had previously operated in the Emirates.  One of the letters, dated December 2019, discussed the conditions for placing staff and mentioned that there is a new batch ready for shipment.

Urgent placement is required before the end of January.  The term “batch” referred to the workers who had passed the adaptation phase. At least eight women were involved in the incident.  The list included the name of Rosalyn B. Lao. This document proved to be crucial.  It was referred to the international working group on trafficking in persons, maintaining the anonymity of the source.

However, it did not receive legal status.  The document was not officially certified and had no legal force.  However, it confirmed the logistical scheme of recruitment, adaptation, distribution and lack of supervision.  The next task was to verify the physical location of the women in specific houses.  This proved impossible.

None of the residence access systems maintained centralized records. All movements were recorded in paper security logs.  that were kept for a maximum of 3 months.  Some of them were counterfeit. The same signature appeared for several different women.  A former security guard who agreed to speak anonymously described how in March 2020, during the lockdown, his shift accompanied the arrival of the transport to one of the facilities.

Later, he identified the woman who was taken out of the car from a photograph.  It was Rosalin.  According to him, the girl did not resist, but she was in poor condition and had a dark spot on her cheek.  He noted that after his arrival, the house was placed under an internal regime.  No external personnel were allowed to enter, no cleaning was done, and no deliveries were received.

  This happened rarely and was always accompanied by increased security measures. He added that a previous employee had been fired a few days earlier . The reasons were not discussed.  At the same time, financial flows related to the transportation of personnel were monitored throughout the accounting chain. One of the analysts showed that in February 2020 several small transfers were made from the same corporate account to individuals for an amount between 1000 and 15 dirhams marked as a bonus.

One of these transfers was made to Rosaln’s mother.  She didn’t know the sender and was sure it was a transfer from her daughter. However, at that time Rosaline was no longer in contact.  This suggested that the money had been transferred to give the appearance of life and activity.  Similar transactions were also recorded in the cases of other missing women.

Everything pointed to an attempt to delay the filing of official missing persons reports. In May of that year, one of the organizations that helped missing women received a statement from a woman who had escaped from a similar house in a neighboring emirate.  She claimed there were other girls in the room where she was being held.

  In particular, he remembered a girl who was quiet, with a southern accent and a sore neck. This description matched the complaints Rosalyn had made about neck pain in January.  The woman stated that one night two men took the girl away.  He did not return in the morning.  Then they cleaned the room and burned the dirty clothes.

  When they asked where it was, they replied, “It’s been returned.”  But nobody saw her leave.  The woman also stated that there was a basement in the house with a door that was always closed.  Every few days men wearing medical masks would come in , sometimes carrying bags.  Nobody knew what was inside.

  The girls were afraid to ask.  Those who tried were isolated.  They locked them in a separate room without light. For one day.  One of the detainees began to have panic attacks.  They took her away at night.  After that, no one ever saw her again.  Later, the witness provided a list of names she had heard during her stay.

  One of them was Ross, which coincided with the name Rosalin’s classmates called her.  The woman left the house after 4 months.  A driver she had contacted helped her escape.  A few weeks later she joined a non-governmental organization. According to her, she was afraid to speak out until she arrived in another country.

  Alongside these statements, an expert in digital network analysis demonstrated that between early 2019 and spring 2020, at least five legal entities registered in the name of citizens of the same country operated in the region, all of them using  similar phones, IP addresses, and banking systems.  All the organizations were involved in recruitment, logistics, or visa processing.

  In all cases, the final recipient was the same person, Jorge M., who could not be located at that time. Their data had been removed from all commercial databases. Their phone numbers were inactive.  His passport had been revoked, according to information received from the immigration service of one of the Asian countries; he left the Gulf region in the summer of 2020 using a passport issued under a different name.

  It is not registered in the destination country.  There are no bank records, no hotel records. Border guards confirmed that he crossed the border, but did not indicate the direction.  Since then there has been total silence. Official authorities have not taken any action. The argument is based on the lack of evidence.

  There are no bodies in other cases.  The impossibility of confirming the links between the agencies, the existence of voluntary contracts. A response from an international organization stated, there is no evidence of an organized plan, no established purpose of exploitation, and no direct evidence of each episode. Thus, the investigation moved into an informal phase.

  Human rights defenders recorded testimonies, journalists tried to connect the dots, and private experts analyzed the data.  The reports described a closed system in which the disappearance of a woman left no trace.  The agency was liquidated, the images were deleted, the security guards remained silent, the employer was unavailable, and the police did not respond.

  All that remained was a trace in the sand, a name on a phone, a voice on a recording, and a fragment of a contract with no legal force.  In the summer of 2023, one of the private analysts working with an international anti-human trafficking group gained access to a backup of deleted correspondence between two employees of an intermediary agency that had operated in Manila before the pandemic.

  The messages spoke of the successful removal of four units and the need to clean the databases.  One of the letters indicated the route, center, transport, reception, control.  The address of the final destination matched the location of the house from which, according to the security guards, Rosaline had been taken a few days before her disappearance.

This letter was forwarded to journalists, who sent a copy to diplomatic missions and local authorities.  No response was received.  An analyst who asked not to be identified confirmed that these routes could be part of a well-established plan in which women were recruited as workers, but in reality, they were taken to conditions of total isolation with the consequent loss of rights and contact with the outside world.

  In September of that same year, an unexpected breakthrough occurred .  An unofficial inspection was carried out in a neighboring emirate following a resident’s complaint about smells and screams coming from the basement.  The property turned out to be a residential building registered in the name of a construction company formerly linked to the now-closed agency.

  The inspection revealed an isolated room in the basement, accessible through a metal door and internal locks. Inside there were two metal beds, two plastic buckets, remnants of ties on the floor and walls, and a ventilation system with no outlet to the outside.  The entire team was unmarked.  There was a lingering technical smell.

   There was nobody inside.  The homeowner was absent and the tenant was a legal entity that had been dissolved two months before the incident. The case was recorded as an unacceptable conversion of a residential premises. The authorities closed the facilities and did not provide any information to the media.

  None of the materials were published.  Journalists who had access to photos and videos of the scene confirmed that the room matched the descriptions previously given by the women who had escaped from those houses.  In one corner of the basement they found a plastic card with fragments of a sentence in English. Laundry ID No. 17.

Neo17 Laundry ID. Similar cards were used in the Sharjah center, where the workers were housed before being assigned. According to the database, number 17 in March 2020 was assigned to Rosalyn Lao.  This was the first piece of evidence that indirectly confirmed his stay in those conditions before his disappearance.

A month later, one of the human rights activists working on the case received a USB drive.  It arrived by regular mail with no return address in a thick brown envelope.  There was only one file in the memory, a video recording.  The camera was low-resolution black and white and was located in the corner of a room that looked like a basement.

  The recording showed a woman with long hair sitting on the floor leaning against a wall.  Only part of his face was visible.  40 seconds later a man appeared in the frame whose face was impossible to distinguish.  He approached her, said something to her, and the woman moved away.  Then there was a sudden movement and a dull noise.  The recording ended.

  Date of filming.  March 2020. The date coincides with the week of Rosalyn’s disappearance.  The video was handed over to the police.   There were no comments on the matter.  No television channel in the region published the images.  Officially, the video is not considered evidence, as the identity of the people, the location of the filming, and the source are unknown.

According to independent journalists, the file was uploaded from an access point at one of the hotels in Yarta. A security camera in the reception area captured a man dropping an envelope into a mailbox.  His identity has not been established .  According to a source, it could be one of the drivers who had previously worked in the transport sector.

  He disappeared a week later.  It has not been possible to contact him.  International human rights groups have published a consolidated report on the case.  It lists at least 13 women whose disappearances followed the same pattern.  Hiring through closed agencies, inability to contact their relatives, false explanations from employers, disappearance without a trace, and refusal of the police to register the cases.

Rosalyn Lao was the first case in which material evidence was obtained: a corpse, video images, an identity document, and witness statements.  In all other cases there is only circumstantial evidence. The investigation has not been officially closed. Authorities have not filed charges against them.

  None of the suspects are in custody.  Most of the companies involved in the scheme have been liquidated.  All legal addresses are invalid.  Some of the people mentioned in the correspondence have left the country. His whereabouts are unknown. Rosaline’s family still lives in Cebu.  They have not received any official apology.

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to his appeal by saying that the situation is under consular control.  No compensation has been paid. According to her mother, she learned of her daughter’s death through a social media post.  Experts say the plan put in place by the agencies was not accidental.  It was a system with management, logistics, coverage, and constant demand.

  Weak control of labor routes, lack of real oversight, diplomatic immunity, and the formal execution of visa procedures enabled this closed network to operate for many years.   There were no external signs of violence. Everything was happening under the guise of legal migration.  One of the women in the final report said, “I didn’t know I was leaving not to work, but to disappear.

”  Rosalin’s story ended in a hole in the desert, but of the whole plan, this is the only place where anything remains.  Everything else has been erased as if she had never existed.  Formally the case is open, but it is not being investigated. Formally there are no guilty parties, but some people have disappeared. And if the video is not fake, if the card is real, if the voice is recognizable, then the network still exists.

  It is no longer called an agency.  Now it’s simply a contact without a name, a bus without a number, a door without a handle, and a disappearance without witnesses. At 6:42 a.m. on August 26, 2019, fishermen who went out to fish in the coastal area of ​​the Emirate of Sharya found the body of a woman in the water.  He was partially naked, with matted hair and two symmetrical wounds on the inner thigh.

  The body was in an initial state of decomposition .  He wasn’t carrying any documents.  The police arrived at the scene 27 minutes later.  The officers cordoned off the coastal area, but made no statements until the preliminary examination was completed. Local media did not report the discovery until two days later, limiting themselves to a single line in the evening edition.

The body of a young woman has been found. No comment was made regarding the identity of the deceased. Seven hours after the discovery of the body, the morgue at Sharjah Central Hospital confirmed that it was Polish citizen Agniesca Zawatka, 28 , who was staying at the One and Only Royal Mirage hotel at the time of her arrival in Dubai.

  His disappearance was registered by the hotel on August 23, when he did not return for breakfast and did not hand over the room keys.  His luggage remained untouched.  At 8 a.m., the reception received a call from an unknown man who claimed that the young woman had extended her stay.  From that moment on, all contact with her was lost.

  The hotel reported her disappearance two days later.  The police opened an investigation, but active measures did not begin until the body was found.  Agniesca Zabatzcaya was a Polish citizen, a professional makeup artist and blogger, and had a popular Instagram account dedicated to decorative cosmetics.  Her last post was on August 22nd and was made from a yacht off the coast of Dubai.

  He arrived in the United Arab Emirates 5 days before his disappearance.  According to information from Emirates airline, her ticket was issued at the invitation of Alfad Beauty Group, a company registered in Dubai and specializing in the supply of cosmetics from Saudi Arabia. The contract for filming was verbal. She told a friend via email that she was going to work with a private team of makeup artists on a private presentation for the brand and that the shoot would take place on a yacht and then in the desert.

  You stopped communicating on the night of August 23rd.  According to the hotel receptionist, on the night of your disappearance, Sabatzcaya left the hotel around 7:30 p.m. You were wearing a white dress and carrying a small handbag. Surveillance cameras recorded him getting into a dark gray Mercedes Vinto with a Saudi Arabian license plate.

  The driver was wearing a white dish dasha and dark glasses.  After that, contact with her was lost.  The investigation began with a request from his family in Warsaw. Two days after losing contact with Agneska, her sister Malgorzata Sahwatka went to the Polish embassy in Abu Dhabi.  Based on a diplomatic note, a request was sent to Dubai to initiate the search.

During the following two days, no official action was taken by the Emirates.  Only after appealing to the international press and publishing a brief note in the Polish newspaper Wiborcha Gazette, did Dubai police send a request to One and obtain the surveillance camera footage.  However, a day later, the video of the yacht where the party was supposedly held disappeared from the internal network of the video surveillance system of the Dubai Marina, Marina Jacked Club.

Dubai police stated that the video was not preserved due to a technical error. Authorities refused to provide the yacht’s guest list, citing confidentiality. The spokesman for the Emirates Criminal Security Bureau stated that the alleged partygoers had left UAE territory.  According to airport data, four Saudi citizens left on a charter flight from Dubai on August 24 at 6 a.m.

, less than 9 hours after Sabatkaya’s last appearance on hotel cameras.  Their identities have not been officially revealed. The coroner’s report from Sharya indicated that the cause of death was drowning under unclear circumstances.  However, independent forensic experts invited by the Polish side noted marks of strong pressure in the neck area, microfractures in the ribs, and the presence of blood in the abdominal cavity.

  In addition, internal bruising was recorded on the body, inconsistent with the usual mechanical injuries from a fall into the water.  The findings regarding a possible sexual assault were not included in the final version of the document.  The police did not initiate a criminal investigation; only an administrative case was registered for the death of a foreign citizen.

  At this stage, the investigation practically stopped.  Only after public pressure from the deceased’s family and publications in the Polish, British and French press did the case gain international relevance. The Justice for Agnesca movement emerged on social media  , with participants posting testimonies from other women who had received similar offers for fashion photo shoots in Persian Gulf countries.

  Several publications contained information about a specific company, Alfad Beauty Group.  Some claimed that contact had been established through intermediaries and that the meeting had not been arranged in an office, but in a hotel or a private apartment.  In Poland, the center for combating human trafficking and organized crime took charge of the case.

Evidence began to emerge that Agnieskawatka’s case was not unique.  Several young women who had visited Dubai and Bahrain with similar invitations confirmed that they had encountered strange situations: isolation from their contacts, confiscation of passports, pressure from the organizers. However, no official complaints were filed .

  Most preferred to remain silent.  Formally, the Sabatkaya case was closed.  The culprits were not identified , the evidence was lost, and the investigation was suspended. However, in December of that same year, journalists from the British newspaper Observer gained access to internal correspondence between employees of the logistics agency Gulf Aviation, which provided services for the charter flight from Dubai to Jeddah on August 24.

  The comments about the flight included the initials of one of the passengers, Majid Alasiri, a Saudi businessman linked to several charitable foundations in Dubai.  In this context, a new detail came to light .  The company Alfat Beauty Group was registered at a legal address that also listed four other companies involved in property rental, child guardianship abroad, and logistics.

  All of them were linked to a computer company registered in the United Kingdom.  Analysis of accounting documents revealed that funds were transferred between them through a chain of fictitious accounts.  This discovery sparked an international investigation, but by then the main people involved had already disappeared.

  One of the intermediaries, who called himself Said, in his correspondence with the Czech model, was identified as a Yemeni citizen working for a modeling agency in Beirut.  He left the United Arab Emirates in mid- September and flew to Cairo.  So far none of the suspects have been arrested.  The story of Agnieska Sabatkaa remains unresolved.

  And although the evidence points to the involvement of an organized group, the UAE police have not made any official comment on the case since November 2019. In the second half of December 2019, the Polish Center’s research team against human trafficking sent an official request to Dubai for copies of the surveillance camera footage from the port where the yacht involved in the Sabatkaya case was moored.

No response was received.  Two weeks later, in early January, it was revealed that the server storing the video surveillance recordings had been subject to an external intervention and that the data corresponding to the period in question had been lost. A port employee, who wished to remain anonymous, reported that the recordings had most likely been manually deleted from the internal network long before the official request.

This confirmed the suspicion that had been raised earlier. The destruction of the evidence was carried out quickly and deliberately before the formal investigation began .  Meanwhile, in Warsaw,  Agniesca’s friends, colleagues, and followers were questioned.  One of the key figures was Natalia Petrec, a makeup artist who received two offers from the same company, Alfart Beauty Group.

In both cases, contact was initiated on social media through an account that presented itself as an independent agency that collaborated with Middle Eastern brands.  In a conversation with journalists, Natalia pointed out that the tone of the communication was professional, that the offers were accompanied by scans of the tickets, a list of tasks for the filming, the expected fees and accommodation in a five- star hotel.

  However, he was alarmed by the requirement not to bring companions and the absence of a legal contract.  She refused.  Later they blocked it.  In January 2020, under media pressure, a temporary working group was created at Europol.  Within a few weeks, matches were found in the Europol database between the disappearances of women in the Emirates, Qatar and Bahin with similar profiles.

  In total, at least nine similar cases were recorded in the last 4 years.  In all of them, the victims received a job offer from an informal agency, tickets and accommodation in luxury hotels, and disappeared during the first few hours after their arrival.  Three were found dead, one in the port of Manama, another on the coast of Ras Al Caima and the third in a desert area near Abu Dhabi.

  In two cases, the cause of death was undetermined. Only in the case of Sabatkaya were there indications of violent death.  The analysis of financial transactions in collaboration with analysts from the Netherlands revealed the existence of an intermediary company, Gulf Horizon Logistics, which provided services to several small charter carriers in the region.

  This structure was listed in the reports as a provider of transport and crew for private events.  One of her orders coincided with the date of the party at which Sabatkaya was seen.  The contract was formalized on behalf of a company registered in the SE Shells.  The payment was made in cryptocurrency; the customers’ names were not listed.

  In March, journalists from the Lemont newspaper gained access to an internal  French intelligence file, classified as unsuitable for public release, which indicated links between representatives of Middle Eastern companies and the gray fashion industry in Europe.  Among the names mentioned was one of the partners of the Alfadh Beauty Group.

  The documents spoke of the possible recruitment of women under the pretext of filming, their subsequent detention, sexual abuse and coercion to maintain private meetings with high- ranking people.  Meanwhile, Agniesca’s story transcended the boundaries of the journalistic field. The European Parliament has demanded that EU countries temporarily restrict the departure of women with private contracts of this type to high-risk countries.

  The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published recommendations for citizens traveling to the United Arab Emirates, urging them to register through consulates.  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.

  The survivors were only allowed to speak after they were guaranteed anonymity.  We have had access to the audio recordings of the statements of two women, one a Lithuanian citizen and the other a Ukrainian citizen, whose names are not being revealed at their request.  They agreed to be interviewed on the condition that their faces and voices were hidden.

  One of them recounted, “I was greeted by a man dressed in traditional clothing, but with an accent. He said he would take me to a hotel, but we arrived at a kind of villa. They took my phone, and that was it. There were other girls there. They took photos of me and then told me to go out to the pool. In the evening, some guests arrived.

They chose who would go with whom. Those who refused were locked in a room. They gave me pills. I do n’t know what they were. I don’t remember what happened during the night.” Another woman described how she was forced to participate in a video, under threat of having it sent to her family. Both spoke of lost passports, the impossibility of leaving the villa, the constant change of staff, and total isolation.

 They described the threats, the pressure, and the state of extreme exhaustion. In both cases, they only managed to free themselves several weeks later. After the intervention of third parties or a fortunate escape, the police refused to register the complaints. The names of the organizers mentioned in their accounts matched those already known in the case of  Sabatkaya, specifically Said himself, as well as Majid Alasiri.

 The latter was known to appear in documents as a sponsor of a humanitarian fund in Jeddah and a member of the board of directors of a private medical center in Riyadh. According to data from spring 2020, his whereabouts were unknown. None of the names mentioned were on the internationally wanted list. Interpol stated that there were insufficient grounds to open an investigation.

Agniesca was buried in Warsaw on September 20.  Approximately 300 people attended the funeral. Her mother and sister continue to participate in public events and demand the extradition of the suspects. The story, which began with a body on the shore, gradually became a dossier with dozens of names, disappearances in different countries, and traces of a transnational conspiracy.

But even with facts, witnesses, and documents, the investigation encountered political, diplomatic, and legal obstacles. In mid-May 2020, the Polish side gained access to correspondence between employees of  Alfad Beauty Group and two girls from Serbia and the Czech Republic. This material was provided by a private digital analysis group acting at the request of the Sabatkaya family.

The analysis revealed that communication had taken place through fake profiles created less than a week before the first contact. On behalf of the account that supposedly represented the agency, the girls were offered a photo shoot in Dubai with flight and accommodation expenses paid. The texts of the messages were identical to those Agniesca had previously received.

 The address given as the meeting place in Dubai matched the apartments in the Marina Crown Tower residential complex, the same ones listed in financial documents as the Alpad Beauty Group office. When the digital analysis experts analyzed mobile activity data in the area of ​​the Marina Crown Tower residential complex during the night of August 23-24, they recorded the activity of three devices that had already been detected in similar investigations related to the disappearance of women in Qatar and Bahrain. One of the devices

was registered to Abdallah bin Salej Alhar, a citizen  a Saudi national who previously worked in the information technology sector in Riyadh. According to European intelligence services , he was under surveillance for his involvement in financial transactions with offshore companies, but he was not officially listed as a wanted person.

 Analysis of border data revealed that no one with a passport in the name of Alharvy had entered the UAE during the specified period. However, on the day of Sabatkaya’s disappearance, a passenger with a different name arrived in the country using a photograph that matched Al Harvey’s file photo, which was registered in one of the visa application databases.

This same person later left the country on a private flight chartered through the logistics company Gulf Horizon. Data from the mobile device registered to Al Harvey showed that it was connected to a closed administrative node of the video surveillance system at the yacht club in the Dubai Marina area.

 This connection occurred shortly before the images from the surveillance cameras that recorded the yacht Sabatkaya boarded were deleted. Experts confirmed that the deletion of  The data was accessed manually via direct access and not as a result of a technical failure or error, as port representatives had previously claimed . These facts were key to the subsequent expansion of the investigation.

The name of Abdallah bin Saleh al Harvey also appeared in documents relating to the rental of properties used as temporary accommodations for the 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 related to this address were carried out through fictitious accounts registered in an offshore jurisdiction.

Payment was made in cryptocurrency using anonymous digital wallets. Despite the information gathered, UAE law enforcement authorities did not confirm Al Harvey’s presence in their territory. None of the names mentioned appeared on Interpol’s wanted list. Poland’s request was met with a formal response stating that no grounds had been presented for the detention of the individuals mentioned.

 To this day, Agniesca Sabatkaya’s case is officially closed.  The death has been determined to be drowning. The suspects have not been arrested or extradited. No country involved in the investigation has managed to prosecute the organizers or participants in the scheme. Most of the companies listed in the documents have been liquidated, access to the data has been blocked, and the assets have been seized.

 The materials gathered as part of the journalistic and international investigation confirm the existence of an organized scheme with indications of human trafficking, forced detention, and systematic concealment of evidence. However, due to a lack of political will, extradition mechanisms, and direct evidence, the international legal system has proven incapable of ensuring justice.

That’s all, folks. Write your opinion in the comments, like if you enjoyed it, and see you soon in new videos. On Friday, July 16, 2021, at 7:38 a.m., the operator of the Dubai Municipality’s stormwater drainage system reported a failure in an industrial area located behind Alcudra Road.

 The emergency team that arrived at the scene  They opened one of the manholes located near a warehouse under construction. Inside, 35 meters from the entrance, they found the naked body of a woman. According to an official police statement, the body was in a state of partial decomposition. The face was disfigured, the hair partially burned, and there were traces of chemical burns on the skin.

The employee who first went down into the manhole later stated in an interview, “I thought it was a mannequin until I saw the fingernails.” The area was cordoned off for two hours. Police, medical services, and the public prosecutor’s office were present at the scene. The press was not allowed access. The first leaks appeared on social media: a photo of a duffel bag next to a special vehicle, accompanied by comments about a model being found.

 That same day, it was learned that the body belonged to a 25-year-old Brazilian citizen, Laura Monteiro. A Dubai police spokesperson confirmed her death at a press conference held that afternoon without giving any reason. Journalists gathered at the Brazilian consulate received no comment. However, the information had already been leaked.

  It began circulating in modeling circles. Several girls wrote the same thing in their stories. We warned you. A day later, Laura’s account was blocked, but by then her last known location, Aljayar Street, on the outskirts of the Alsufu district, had already been captured in hundreds of screenshots.

 Laura Monteiro, 25, from São Paulo, was officially a freelance model working with several South American agencies. Unofficially, she often appeared in private fashion shows in Mexico, Marbella, and London. She ended up in the Emirates at the invitation of Al Misk, a brand that presents itself as a luxury perfume line.

 The contract was for 10 days, from June 6 to 16. She arrived in Dubai alone. With a layover in Madrid, she checked into a hotel on Yumeira Beach, but the next day she moved to a private villa. Her stories showed a pool, martinis, parties, and a yacht docked in the marina. Her last post was on June 11. A photo by the pool with the caption “Tonight will be…”  Unreal.

Then, silence. Her family in Brazil reported her disappearance 50 days later. According to the official version, the contract with the Al Misk UAE brand and the agency that connected Laura with the client stopped operating shortly before her departure. Calls went unanswered, and the website was shut down. Laura’s mobile phone had not been connected since the afternoon of the 11th.

 The hotel reported that she had left. The villa where she spent her last days was rented under the name Al Mansur Luxury Properties. The villa was listed as empty. Formally, the investigation did not begin until her body was found, 33 days after her disappearance. By then, most of the leads had vanished. The villa had already changed tenants.

 New cameras were installed on the premises, and security was reinforced. Representatives of the rental company declined to comment. In unofficial circles, this place had long been known by the code name Port Apatti. In the modeling world, it referred to villas where girls were invited to private parties.  The invitation resembled a contract for a photo shoot or an advertisement.

 However, the program was different. It was a closed party with isolation, a ban on phone calls, and filming under unregistered conditions. The presence of chemical burns on Laura’s body was confirmed in a forensic medical report dated July 20. In addition to the skin damage, there were signs of sexual assault, dehydration, lack of medical attention, and the presence in her blood of substances not registered in the United Arab Emirates .

 Some of the analgesic and sedative components can only be found in clinics or through military supplies. One of the toxicologists, who wished to remain anonymous, stated in an interview with a Spanish publication, “This is not street chemistry.”  Someone used it regularly under controlled conditions.

  According to the investigation, the villa belonged to an entity linked to businessman Caled Almansuri.  At that time he was 48 years old, listed as the owner of three luxury properties, and appeared in the records as a consultant in real estate investments and high-level humanitarian initiatives. On June 23, 12 days after Laura’s last appearance, Almansuri left the country on a private plane flying from Sharjah to Geneva.

  His name did not appear in any search database and no arrest warrant was issued against him.  The investigation was limited to a few records and closed-door interviews with staff.  Police stated they found no evidence of a crime at the villa.  Local media soon stopped reporting on the case.  The Brazilian side sent an official request to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the United Arab Emirates and received a response three months later.

  The text stated, “There is no evidence of a violent arrest or connection between Laura Monteiro and the property owner.” At that moment it seemed that the case would not move forward.  However, two weeks later an event occurred that changed the course of the investigation. Laura Monteiro’s name quickly disappeared from the international agenda.

  There was no further news.  The accounts were deleted, and even the hashtags previously associated with her began to disappear from search results.  But one of her friends, Julia Fonseca, 27, also a model from Sao Paulo, did not believe the private accident version.  It became the key source from which everything began. Julia lived in the same neighborhood as Laura and starred in the same projects.

  The last contact between them was on the night of June 11th through a video call. Laura showed that she was in a house with marble floors, glasses on the table, and six people: three men, two girls, and a Ukrainian woman named Cristina.  Julia didn’t remember the last name, but she did remember the dialogue.

  Laura whispered to him that she didn’t know how to decline the evening’s program because she had already received her payment.  The connection was cut off after a minute. Then there was silence.  First Julia wrote directly to Laura, then through mutual acquaintances, and finally to the people in London who had introduced them to this client.

  But the agent did not respond.  Three days later his account was deleted.  Six days later, his phone number was disconnected. Julia then contacted the Brazilian consulate in Dubai and began posting information on her Instagram account.  One of the posts received more than 20,000 reposts.  A photo of Laura with the caption did not disappear.  They took her away.

After that, Julia received her first anonymous message.  It was a screenshot of a conversation in which another girl, under the nickname Tamara Italia, was writing.  I was there in January.  It’s not a photo shoot.  They contacted her.  The girl agreed to a call through a VPN.  Her name was Tamara Rosini.

  He was 23 years old and from Bergamo.  According to her, the Mediterráneo Promo agency, with which she had previously worked, took her to a trade event in Dubai.  The contract contained nothing suspicious.  It covered the flight, accommodation and a fee of €5,000. Upon arrival, she was met by a driver and signed an additional agreement at the airport, a confidentiality agreement that specified the penalties for recording and sharing information.

Then they took her to a villa.  According to his description, it was on the same street, with the same style of house and the same details.  Black curtains, no cameras inside, and security at the door.  At the dinner there were men who, according to her, were neither tourists nor residents.  They were well dressed and some had bodyguards.

He tried to refuse to participate in the intimate part.  after which they locked her in a room.  Tamara stated that the following morning she was taken to the outskirts of town, where she signed a confidentiality agreement and was given a ticket to return home.  The documents haven’t confirmed your story, but this was the first case in which a direct link was established between the village and the violent acts.

Immediately after your story, three other girls from Colombia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic came forward.  They also described events that began as private photo sessions , but ended in isolation, recordings with men, confiscation of phones, and threats. Once again, the exact geolocation, the same drivers, the same security guards.

  That’s when the Amsterdam-based human rights organization Safeline International intervened .  Their representatives began to gather testimonies.  In August 2021, Interpol was sent  at least 12 similar cases, all related to the arrival of young women in Dubai, all with contracts from non-existent companies, all with the same routes and consequences.

Eight girls reported having suffered violence.  Three reported being drugged.  One of the private investigators who works in Europe and collaborates with Safeline, traveled incognito to the United Arab Emirates. Her name has not been revealed, but it is known that she obtained copies of the correspondence between the models and two contacts from the Elite Dubai Promo WhatsApp group.

  They used fake logos of authentic brands and sent contracts and PDF files without a return address. At this point the cases split. The official investigation in the United Arab Emirates has been closed.  The police responded that there was no evidence of a crime.  However, an investigation was launched in Europe through Interpol and Europol.

  In September, a Bulgarian citizen, Simeon T, was arrested in Amsterdam.  He was listed as an intermediary, specifically as a recruiter.  His testimony was the first official document to mention Al Mansuri’s name.  According to him, he did not know the true purpose of the trips, but the contacts were provided to him by people linked to an investment fund in Dubai.

  During questioning, he admitted to sending at least 19 girls to the Emirates since 2018. Through this contact, Dutch police obtained the addresses of the rented villas, the names of the drivers, and the names of the lawyers who handled the contracts.  All the clues led to the same structure.  Al Mansur Luxury Properties, registered in the British Virgin Islands.

  When the investigation in Europe began to gather concrete data, it became clear that the case of Laura Monteiro was neither the first nor the only one.  Through Safeline International and Europol, at least 24 cases of disappearances or reports of girls who had visited Dubai with similar contracts with non-existent companies were registered.

Eight cases were accompanied by allegations of sexual assault.  Three of them had medical reports indicating signs of drug treatment.  Almost all cases began in the same way.  An email offering an exclusive photo session accompanied by a PDF document containing a contract, details of the total payment, business class tickets and local assistance.

  None of the agencies were licensed and they did not answer the phone during the week prior to the models’ departure.  The girls were taken to the villas by the same drivers, at least two of whom appeared in the photos.  The cars had temporary license plates , there were no cameras inside the buildings, and the doors were locked from the inside.

  The girls were only allowed to move around accompanied by administrators and their mobile devices were confiscated for customer safety reasons.  An investigation launched in September 2021 by Europol revealed that these villas belonged to the investment fund Ars International Group, registered in the Virgin Islands.

  The funds were managed by Almanar Legal Consultants, a law firm that officially operates in Dubai.  Through this channel, short-term rental contracts of between 3 and 5 days in duration were arranged.  The contracts were made with fictitious companies Arcana Group, Suria Concept and Sappire View Events.  None of them had employees.

  bank accounts in the United Arab Emirates or any means of contact.  The girls who testified stated that they were kept locked in rooms for several days.  Each party’s program included a photo session after which the guests were asked to provide additional services, and refusals were not accepted .  Some witnesses stated that it is possible that substances were added to the food and drinks.

One of the victims, a 22-year-old Czech model, said she woke up two days after the party and was later sent a video and threatened with its release.  There was sufficient evidence to refer the case to Dutch and French prosecutors.  However, the problem was jurisdiction. All the crimes, even though the victims were citizens of other countries, had been committed in the territory of the United Arab Emirates, where the aura case had already been officially closed.

Cooperation between the authorities was difficult.  All official requests received a response.  There are no grounds to initiate criminal proceedings. Meanwhile, in November 2021, French investigative journalist Guillón Ferré published an extensive article in Lemond featuring six independent testimonies, photographs of the villa interiors that matched those published by Laura, and an analysis of the movement of funds through the Ares International group.

According to Ferré, some of the payments were made through offshore accounts managed by a Geneva bank.  The recipients of the funds were companies directly linked to Ced Al Mansuri.  And it gets worse.  One of the IT specialists who previously worked for Almanar Legal Consultants provided a copy of an encrypted backup of the server.

  After deciphering it with the help of German specialists, correspondence files and event calendars were obtained.  These revealed that between 2019 and 2021 at least 47 closed events were held, attended by around 200 girls from South America, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.  German criminal investigators established that some of the IP addresses from which the information was exchanged matched those used to book flights and obtain visas in Almansuri’s name.

One of these addresses used from a hotel in Zich also appeared in bank transactions totaling €160,000, money that was transferred to the account of a law firm that paid for the rental of villas in the Emirates.  In December 2021, the Swiss Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation into money laundering.

  The bank account was frozen.  This was the first real blow to the entire structure. However, by then Al Mansuri himself had already disappeared from any jurisdiction where he could be questioned.  According to operational information, he was in Laos, then on a private yacht in the Indian Ocean, after which he disappeared from radar.

  But even in his absence, the structure continued to function. New offers from the same agencies began appearing on modeling forums, only now with different names.  The destinations listed included not only Dubai, but also Riyadh, Manila, and Abu Dhabi. Then US investigators from the human trafficking department got involved, and it was they who in January 2022 received a direct recording from the phone of one of the victims who managed to smuggle the device out.

  According to experts, this video became a key piece of evidence for the upcoming trial.  The video was 21 minutes long.  It was recorded in vertical format, without sound.  The camera was hidden in the lining of a handbag.  Only part of the room was visible: the tiled floor, the bottom of the table, and a pair of men’s shoes.

  The images show a woman in a tight black dress standing against a wall while being searched.  There are three men in the room.  One is wearing gloves and the other is holding a tablet.  The girl is asked to take off her shoes and then they take her away .  Below are images of the hallway, lamp shadows, and a logo visible on the wall.

  The golden letters Sappire Knights.  The video was obtained from a Colombian citizen who, according to investigators, was able to escape from Dubai with the help of a Spanish diplomat. She declined to make a public statement, but provided copies of her tickets, correspondence, and GPS records.  This information matched the material previously obtained by Europol.

  The location of the video was identified as a villa in the Alzuhur area, which had already appeared in the Laura Monteiro case.  At the time of the analysis, the property was listed as being rented by Alnur Holdings, a company registered with Vice. Investigators discovered that Aln Holdings was used to rent at least three properties in the United Arab Emirates, one in Bahin, and one in the Maldives.

  The contacts listed in the contracts led back to structures linked to Ced Almanuri.  His name, which had not yet appeared in the court orders, came to occupy a central place in the file prepared by the Swiss Prosecutor’s Office.  In February 2022, a search was carried out at the office of one of the investment funds, Gamstone Capital AG, in Geneva.

  The documents seized during the operation contained payment orders that showed that more than 3 million euros had been transferred through subsidiaries to pay for real estate rentals, public relations services and protocol support.  One of the internal reports contained the following line: exclude contact until the end of the SAFIAR 07 project.

 Below was a list of names, Monteiro, Rosini, Basilenco and Landau.  All of them are victims listed in the investigation.  Investigators determined that Project Sapir 07 was the code name for a series of parties held in Dubai in the summer of 2021. It was precisely when Laura arrived.  The investigation also identified the villa manager as Hamid Atar, a 39-year-old Egyptian citizen and former security guard at luxury hotels in Cairo.

  His name appeared in the payment records and in various communications. In one of them, he directly describes the plan.  The girls are handed over in advance, with no contact with clients before their arrival.  Their phones and identity documents are confiscated .  There is security both outside and inside.

  A preparation report is required 6 hours before the start. Hamida was arrested in March 2022 in Cyprus, where he had arrived as a tourist.  Under an Interpol order, he was extradited to Geneva. He gave partial testimony and confirmed that he worked for Alnur Holdings, but that he did not know what was happening inside.  He stated that he performed a logistical function, received instructions via Telegram, and only communicated with intermediaries.

However, his testimony made it possible to reconstruct the modus operandi. Recruitment was carried out through fictitious modeling agencies. The facilities were leased through offshore legal entities.  The staff were hired without official registration.  After the events, all traces were destroyed: documents, clothing, electronic devices.

  The girls were taken there voluntarily if they remained silent or under threat of blackmail.  One of the former victims, a Ukrainian citizen residing in the Czech Republic, gave a detailed interview to a German television channel .  He stated that he was given sedatives during his stay at the house. They called a doctor twice, and on one occasion they locked her up without water for an entire day.

  There were cameras in the room, but no one showed him the recordings.  According to her, a girl named Laura arrived later, she was quiet, tried not to argue, and two days later they took her away and she never came back.  This information has not been officially confirmed, but it coincides with the last days of Laura Monteiro’s life .

  In April 2022, Geneva investigators carried out a second inspection of Gamestone Capital AG’s servers.  In one of the files, dated January, they found video footage of one of the events, 32 encrypted clips without sound . One of the files contained a fragment showing a girl who looked like Laura, dressed in the same clothes as in her last story.

  The recording was not made public, but it appeared in the case file as direct visual evidence of involvement. According to investigators, the recording was made from an internal surveillance system.  It had timestamps and confirmed that Laura was at the facility for at least two days after her disappearance.

  But the key piece of evidence was a letter.  In May, the Brazilian embassy in Abu Dhabi received a letter on paper with no return address.  Inside there was a USB drive and three handwritten lines.  They didn’t kill her immediately.  They waited until the customer left.  The USB drive was immediately sent to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office.

  The memory file was a video recording from a fixed camera, 14 minutes without sound, a dark room, concrete walls, a metal bed frame.  A girl tied up on her back is sitting on the floor.  Judging by her features, she appears to be Laura Monteiro.  Her face is swollen, her left cheek is bruised, and she is having difficulty breathing.

  It hardly moves at any time.  At the end of the recording, a person approaches her, a silhouette in the shadows.  Only a fragment of an arm is visible.  The recording ends abruptly. A Brazilian forensic laboratory and independent experts from Europol confirmed the authenticity of the video. According to the timestamp and metadata, it was created on the night of June 12-13, one day after the aura disappeared.

  This discovery changed the classification of the case.  It was no longer simply a death as a result of an accident, but an intentional deprivation of liberty, followed by murder.  The investigation intensified.  An international investigation coordination center was created  under the auspices of Europol, comprised of representatives from the public prosecutor’s offices of Brazil, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and Germany.

  In June 2022 they published a joint report.  It was the first time the expression “a transnational network for the exploitation of women” was used, with indications of an organized criminal structure operating under the cover of legal entities registered in extraterritorial jurisdictions. The total number of identified victims is 41 women.

  15 gave official testimony, seven are missing. Laura Monteiro was recognized as the first official victim whose death from violent acts was proven.  The organization responsible for her disappearance continued to operate at least until April 2022. Ked Almansuri remained the prime suspect in the case.

  According to investigators, he traveled through private airports and used the services of transportation companies that did not require identification. His whereabouts could not be determined.  In early July 2022, the Swiss Public Prosecutor’s Office issued an international arrest warrant .  Al Mansuri was accused of organizing a sex trafficking ring, money laundering, illegal detention, serious bodily harm, and complicity in murder.

  In August, one of his confidants, SIAT A, a Lebanese citizen who held the position of personnel consultant at Gamstone Capital, AG, was arrested.  He admitted that he oversaw the logistics of the trips, participated in the accommodation of the guests and guaranteed the confidentiality of the events.  His testimony completed the picture.

  The trial began in February 2023 in Geneva.  The hearings were held behind closed doors.  The prosecution was based on more than 300 pages of evidence, including bank transactions, photographs, video recordings, copies of letters, and encrypted chat messages .  The main event was the death of Laura Monteiro.

  The court acknowledged the facts of violent arrest, use of medication, sexual violence, physical exhaustion, and abandonment. Forensic experts confirmed that the injuries were incompatible with life without immediate medical treatment. The five defendants, all of whom belonged to the second level of the network’s management, were convicted.

The maximum penalty is 32 years in prison. The court noted separately that the main organizers are outside the jurisdiction and continue to evade investigation. The public reaction was fierce.  In Brazil, the issue of Laura’s disappearance returned to the media. His mother spoke at a demonstration in Sao Paulo.

  In the United Arab Emirates .  No official commented on the case.  The structures involved in the case were dissolved or renamed. However, the investigation did not end there.  Three months after the verdict, police seized a laptop computer in an apartment on the outskirts of Vienna.  He was found during a search unrelated to Al Mansuri.

The Archives U02 folder contained 32 files.  Among them were contracts, photographs, and a list of girls dated April 2023. Two names were already on the missing persons list. The file was created three weeks after the trial.  This confirmed that the network had not been destroyed; its structure had been adapted.

  Some of the suspects went into hiding, while others remained in countries that do not cooperate with Interpol. The researchers acknowledged that the magnitude of the phenomenon was greater than expected.  Conclusion: What happened to Laura Monteiro only became known to the world because her body was found. The rest disappear in silence.

Modern criminal networks often use legitimate business structures , fake agencies, and offshore companies.  Bureaucratic barriers, weak international pressure, and the diplomatic secrecy of the Gulf countries create an environment of total impunity. This research highlights the vulnerability of women when their right to freedom and life depends on a signed PDF file and the absence of an official license.

  The system did not protect Laura and probably will not protect other people if nothing changes.