First Aadhaar, now UPI: Cops reveal the dark underbelly of human trafficking in Goa

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

UPI was found recently by the Goa Police. As per the cops, they have uncovered an international sex racket in which clients were made to pay sex workers using UPI!

As per the cops, the racket was being remotely managed from Kenya.

The modus operandi involved victimised sex workers providing clients with QR codes for payment, which were subsequently transferred in full to the human traffickers. Typically, the QR code or UPI payment was made at the outset of the transaction, ensuring that clients could not evade paying the victims later, reported the Times of India.

According to a report in the Times of India, two Kenyan nationals—Maria Dorcas, aged 28, and Wilkista Achitsa, aged 22—have been arrested in the case.

Additionally, five Kenyan women who were victims of trafficking were rescued with the assistance of the NGO Arz. The police are currently in pursuit of a third suspect, who is of Nigerian nationality.

This sinister sex racket preyed on educated Kenyan women, luring them with promises of jobs in the hospitality industry.

The traffickers, orchestrating this deception, handled all the documentation required for these women to come to India, including purchasing their tickets.

Interestingly, this is not the first time that pimps and traffickers have been found using tools that were intended to make lives simpler for a common man. Previously, pimps operating in Goa had mandated that clients produce their Aadhaar cards before the women were delivered to them.