Yesterday, the Criminal Court in the Ras Al Khaimah Courts Department heard the defense of a young African lawyer accused of joining an international criminal project consisting of three accused of managing prostitution and trafficking networks.
The accused denied the accusations against him, and stated in the investigations that he has no relationship with the first, second and victim accused and that he was not aware of the nature of their work, noting that he worked as a guard in the first accused's house in exchange for food and housing until he got a job.
In the case papers, the three defendants brought girls from outside the country, and upon their arrival they were escorted to two separate homes, withdrawing their mobile phones and passports, and forcing them to work in prostitution for sums of money.
A secret source in the investigations said that the administration received a report from a girl stating that she escaped from a house that her colleagues and her colleagues used to engage in prostitution after bringing them from their countries. He went to the second house and witnessed the second suspect and asked him to provide a girl for him, as the source made sure that the defendants trafficked people and took legal measures against them.
The defense attorney of the defendant argued that the public prosecutor’s permission and the procedures for controlling his client were null and void, stating that his client’s name was not mentioned in the prosecution’s arrest warrant during the raid on the two houses, and that the arrest warrant was general for any accused.
He added, that his client was working in the house of the first accused as a guard and receiving anyone who came to the house and did not know that he was dedicated to prostitution, calling for his client to be acquitted of the charges against him.