{"id":13841,"date":"2014-04-29T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:44:00","slug":"air-france-exec-ran-e8m-prostitution-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13841","title":{"rendered":"Air France exec ran \u20ac8m prostitution ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"airfrance\"<\/a>A senior Air France manager has been charged for running a prostitution ring with his Brazilian wife, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

The Jewish exec is alleged to have flown Brazilian prostitutes to Paris using cheap tickets, a perk of his job with the airline, to get the girls to France.<\/p>\n

Since 2010 a senior Air France manager and his wife pulled in an estimated \u20ac2 million in cash per year from a prostitution ring they ran in Paris and which included at least 10 young female prostitutes, French daily Le Parisien reported.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors told Le Parisien the company manager used a perk from his job, which allowed him to buy return tickets to Brazil for \u20ac150 a piece, to shuttle some of the prostitutes between Brazil and France.<\/p>\n

As the operation was managing by his Brazilian wife, Claudia, 51, the manager identified only as 54-year-old Alain D., worked his day job managing flight crews at Charles de Gaulle airport, one of the airlines\u2019 hubs.<\/p>\n

But the lucrative business was stopped cold on Thursday when Alain D., his wife, and a second Brazilian woman were charged with human trafficking, pimping and criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n

Authorities believe Claudia was responsible for the day-to-day running of the ring, which saw the ten or so young women shuffled between four apartments in Paris, one of which was a city-owned property reserved for low-income renters.<\/p>\n

But it appears the couple, and a third accomplice who was also charged, were anything but tenants in need of a subsidy. The young women were expected to have five encounters per day with customers who who were paying about \u20ac150 per visit.<\/p>\n

Claudia is alleged to have handled the online marketing, the money as well as arranging the meetings for the young women. It was one of the prostitutes, a young Brazilian woman, who eventually went to police and prompted the investigation.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0fourth\u00a0man, identified as Jose W, aged 50, portrayed himself as a mystical guru who charged the women up to \u20ac500 a time to \u2018cheer them up and help them regain confidence in themselves,\u2019 according to a source who spoke to Le Parisien newspaper.<\/p>\n

The prostitution\u00a0ring\u00a0was\u00a0finally exposed\u00a0when one of the Brazilians filed a complaint about pimping and people trafficking.<\/p>\n

All have now been charged and are in custody at Fresnes prison near Paris, said a police source close to the case.<\/p>\n

He said the complainant arrived in Paris \u2018as a student\u2019 four years ago but was \u2018forced by the couple\u2019 to start having sex with up to five clients a day in the Rue de Rivoli flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A senior Air France manager has been charged for running a prostitution ring with his Brazilian wife, according to media reports. The Jewish exec is alleged to have flown Brazilian prostitutes to Paris using cheap tickets, a perk of his job with the airline, to get the girls to France. Since 2010 a senior Air … Continue reading “Air France exec ran \u20ac8m prostitution ring”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[1957,1956,8884,294,8883,8882],"class_list":["post-13841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-air-france","tag-charles-de-gaulle-airport","tag-criminal-conspiracy","tag-human-trafficking","tag-pimping","tag-protitution-ring"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/airfrance.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13845,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions\/13845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}