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SINGAPORE – A\u00a0man who promised to marry a Singaporean woman and later made her perform sex work in Dubai was sentenced to eight years\u2019 jail, six strokes of the cane and a fine of $9,000 on Oct 7.<\/p>\n
Achraf Arjaouy, 32, an Italian citizen, was convicted of a human trafficking charge<\/span><\/a> in April after a trial.<\/p>\n He will have to spend an additional six weeks behind bars should he fail to pay the fine.<\/p>\n The woman, identified as V1 in court documents, flew back to Singapore after she contracted a sexually transmitted disease.<\/p>\n In earlier proceedings, the court heard that Achraf arrived in Singapore in March 2021\u00a0and matched with V1 on a dating app the following month.<\/p>\n The prosecution had said that during a whirlwind courtship, Achraf told the victim he wanted to marry her in Qatar. She was overjoyed and agreed to travel with him to Dubai en route to Qatar.<\/p>\n However, Achraf never intended to take V1 to Qatar and did not want to marry her.<\/p>\n Court documents stated that Achraf had lied to V1, claiming\u00a0he came\u00a0from a wealthy Qatari family and was a pilot for Qatar Airways.<\/p>\n The prosecution said Achraf had told V1 that their relationship would end if she refused to travel with him to Dubai.<\/p>\n The victim agreed to leave her life in Singapore behind, and the pair travelled\u00a0to\u00a0the United Arab Emirates on April 21, 2021.<\/p>\n While there, Achraf claimed she needed to show US$10,000 (S$12,800) as proof of funds to enter Qatar. This was not true.<\/p>\n Because she did not have the money, Achraf told V1 to prostitute herself to raise the money. She gave in after he pestered her.<\/p>\n The prosecutors said he took intimate photographs of her, created profiles for her on escort websites in Dubai, solicited customers for her, and booked a hotel for her to provide sexual services.<\/p>\n Achraf collected her daily earnings.<\/p>\n Court documents stated that V1 stopped engaging in prostitution in September 2021 after contracting a sexually transmitted disease.<\/p>\n She\u00a0flew\u00a0back\u00a0to Singapore two months later.<\/p>\n Separately, Ashraf has 16 other pending charges, including multiple counts of cheating, and these will be dealt with later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE – A\u00a0man who promised to marry a Singaporean woman and later made her perform sex work in Dubai was sentenced to eight years\u2019 jail,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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