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Scotland Yard busts gang selling virginities for £50k to wealthy Arabs | | Scotland Yard has in an undercover operation foiled the plans of a sex trafficking gang to sell the virginity of
underage girls to wealthy businessmen for up to 150,000 pounds each. Three women and a man were caught and arrested for offering girls as young as 13 after staff
at a luxury hotel tipped off the police. The incident came to light when one of
the women arrived at the Jumeirah Carlton Hotel in Knightsbridge, central London,
to offer the gang's services in a handwritten letter to the owner in August last
year. "I have 12 girls ready from the age 14-20 years, who are living all over
the UK, I have spent money on the preparation of this event such as a rented house
for the girls and also all expenses needed," the Daily Mail quoted the letter
as reading. Staff immediately alerted police, who traced the car the woman came
in and the telephone number given in the letter to an address in Wigan, where
Fatima Hagnegat, 24, and her husband, Rassoul Gholampour lived. Detectives then
exchanged messages with the gang under the guise of potential clients, and one
undercover officer telephoned the mobile number provided in the letter to ask
about hiring girls on behalf of a client. The officer, named Cameron, spoke to
Hagnegat's aunt, Marohkh Jamali, 41, and she told him that she could arrange a
party for four to five people that night if required. She also stated that she
could provide girls from Iran, England and Eastern Europe aged 14 and 20. The
officer arranged to meet Jamali who told him some of her girls were virgins and
could be "broken" by his client. She emailed him photographs of a number of girls
and said she would bring up to five girls to London, including two 13-year-olds,
and would expect 50,000 pounds to 150,000 pounds for each. The next day Jamali
went to a different London hotel, in Bayswater, accompanied by Hagnegat and six
girls, two were aged 14 and 17, while the other four were 18 or older. Jamali
and Hagnegat were arrested from the hotel and the victims, who had all been brought
to London from the North-West of England and cannot be identified for legal
reasons,
were taken to a victims' centre. The gang members, who are all jobless and Iranian,
pleaded guilty to trafficking and prostitution offences at Harrow Crown Court.
Hagnegat and Jamali, who is from North-West London, each admitted conspiracy to
traffic persons within the UK for sexual exploitation and a second charge of control
of prostitution for gain. A 43-year-old woman, who owned the London flat where
the victims were taken the night before they were introduced to Cameron, admitted
the same two charges. She cannot be named for legal reasons. Gholampour, 30,
pleaded
guilty to conspiracy to traffic persons within the UK for sexual exploitation.
A third charge of conspiracy to arrange the prostitution of children will lie
on the file of all four defendants. The four-gang members, who have been in custody
since their arrest last year, will be sentenced on September 14.
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