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28 March 2024

Blacklisted massage parlour offers bribe to inspector to get ban lifted

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By Eman Al Baik

A Chinese woman allegedly offered a Labour Ministry inspector a bribe of Dh2,000 to make him write a good report and lift the ban on the massage parlour she ran in Dubai.

While the ministry’s inspector MJ, 30, was visiting the massage centre on Al Dhiyafa Street on December 16, a European man entered and sought massage. JZ, 46, owner of the centre, told him that the centre does not offer massage for men.

“I was visiting the centre to check on it and prepare a report. The centre had been on a  blacklist for violating its licensed activities which is limited to giving massage for women while the centre was offering its services to male customers.  While I was there, a man entered, so I suspected that she was still offering the service to men.

“When questioned, she initially denied but later admitted that she is still offering massage to some male customers. I informed her that I will prepare a report about her centre. When she heard that she offered me a bottle of perfume. When I refused to take, it she offered me Dh2,500 for writing a good report to help lift the ban on her massage centre.

“I gave her my official mobile number to get her arrested red handed while paying the bribe. Immediately after coming out of the massage centre, I informed my senior about the woman and the bribe. Police was informed and in coordination with them, the woman was arrested red handed while paying Dh2,000 as bribe ,” the inspector told investigators.

JZ told investigators that it was the Labour Ministry inspector who asked for bribe and that when she told him that she only had Dh2,000, he agreed on the amount and gave her his mobile number.

“I went to the Labour Ministry and called him while I was there. He was not in the office and told me that he will come to the centre. When he came to the centre, I gave him Dh2,000 to get the massage centre removed from the blacklist,” she told investigators.

Policeman AG confirmed the story of the labour ministry inspector who called the police and lodged a complaint against the massage centre’s owner. In his complaint, the ministry inspector said he had visited the centre to help it to be removed from the blacklist if it complied with rules and regulations and limited its services to women only.

When he was there, the inspector found out that the centre is still offering its services to men, so its owner offered him a bribe to get the ban on the centre lifted, said the policeman.

“In coordination with us, the businesswoman was arrested after she paid Dh2,000 bribe to the ministry’s inspector,” AG testified.

The Court will give its sentence on May 5