A human trafficking gang in Dubai led by a woman has been busted following a tip-off from an Emirati employer whose domestic help was caught in the trap.
The Anti-Organised Crime Department of the General Department of Dubai Criminal Investigation arrested an Asian woman – an absconding housemaid herself – and her three accomplices. All four have been charged with human trafficking.
The woman allegedly lured housemaids to urged them to flee from their sponsors. Once they relented, one of her accomplices from another emirate was responsible to get the girls to a rented apartment. There they were allegedly forced into prostitution.
The incident came to light when one Emirati woman alerted the Dubai Police’s operations room saying her housemaid was detained in an apartment in Deira and was being forced by a compatriot into prostitution, said Col Abdul Rahim Mohammed Shafi, Director of Department for Combating Organised Crime.
Police raided the said place and discovered two maids.
The woman gang leader denied she forced maids into prostitution or to escape from their respective sponsors.
Courtesy: Emirates 24/7