Suspected Prostitution (Case Example)

The Frankfurt red-light scene is famous and notorious — far beyond the borders of Hesse. Mr. Naris is Thai and commissioned Aaden Commercial Detective Agency Frankfurt to check several addresses in the city. His life partner, also Thai, had been flying to Germany again and again for a few weeks at a time since the end of 2014, always at intervals of a few months. Allegedly, she could earn a great deal of money here in a special fusion restaurant and had to take advantage of this opportunity.

At first, the client of our Frankfurt private detectives no longer really believed her story and demanded proof, whereupon Ms. Samak, his life partner, sent him pictures of her alleged workplace and her apartment building, along with the respective addresses and the name of the restaurant. Mr. Naris now believed she could tell him a lot about places on the other side of the globe. Accordingly, Aaden Detectives Frankfurt took over the on-site verification.

Comparison: Photo and Reality

At the address of the alleged workplace of the target person there was indeed a small café, but no restaurant. The photo sent by Ms. Samak definitely does not show this address, but must have been taken elsewhere. Our detective from Frankfurt checked the surroundings but could not find the building from the photo anywhere. Finally, he went into the café at the address and inspected the staff: all of the employees looked Central European. He ordered a coffee and, under a pretext, asked the server about foreign employees, since Mr. Naris would have liked to know this information: a Dutch woman had once worked here, but that had been three years ago; otherwise there were only Germans here. Our Frankfurt private detective also asked about restaurants nearby, since the café only offered snacks. The server then gave him two addresses in the area. The investigator thanked her, quickly but unobtrusively finished his coffee, and visited the mentioned restaurants. These addresses, too, were not the buildings shown in the photo.

Meanwhile, through online research, the operations management of Aaden Detective Agency Frankfurt determined that there was another branch of the café in the city. Perhaps Ms. Samak had confused the addresses, perhaps the second café had a proper menu — both rather unlikely, but at least worth checking. Accordingly, our commercial detective from Frankfurt went to the branch address. But this building also did not match the photo, there were no hot meals here either, and again no foreigners were employed there.

New Lead via Google Image Search

Since the search for the workplace had initially been exhausted, our private investigator from Aaden Commercial Detective Agency Frankfurt went to Ms. Samak’s alleged accommodation. The photo of this apartment was not taken from the outside, but from a window, meaning it did not show the building itself but the houses opposite. These, in turn, bore no resemblance whatsoever to those photographed at the known address in reality. Ms. Samak had therefore also given false information in this respect.

After uploading the photos to a secure, password-protected website, the operations management of Aaden Detective Agency Frankfurt conducted a Google image search. This produced no useful results for the photo of the residential address, but it did for the workplace: a building in the station district that could be found via a Google Maps entry for the restaurant located there. The operations management immediately sent the investigator to the indicated address. About twenty minutes later, the confirmation came: it was the building from the photo and there was indeed a restaurant there, although not with fusion cuisine. Our Frankfurt detective searched the surrounding area for the houses that could be seen from Ms. Samak’s supposed apartment. Two side streets away, he found what he was looking for — in Elbestraße, known to Frankfurt residents as a center for paid sex.

Residential Address in the Red-Light District = Prostitute?

An online check of the address in Elbestraße produced several hits for prostitutes who could allegedly be reached there. One was supposed to ring a specific name on a floor matching the photo angle and would then be let in. Our private detective from Frankfurt did exactly that: a very friendly female voice answered the intercom. The investigator asked whether Melissa (the name of a prostitute who, according to the internet, had worked here in the previous year) was currently available, and was told that Melissa was off duty this week. The situation therefore seemed clear: Ms. Samak’s chance to earn money in Germany lay in offering sexual services. She had probably simply used the photo of the alleged workplace because the restaurant was around the corner from her apartment. She must have given the addresses incorrectly, since the nature and extent of Frankfurt’s red-light district is easy to research on the internet (at least in German and certainly also in our language of communication with the client of Aaden Detectives Frankfurt, namely English).

Observation of the Life Partner upon her Next Arrival in Frankfurt

Mr. Naris was naturally shocked when he heard the investigative results and the obvious conclusions. However, he wanted absolute certainty: in two and a half weeks Ms. Samak would again travel to Germany for a good month, and she would then need to be observed to make sure. Through numerous past assignments at Frankfurt Airport, Aaden Detectives Frankfurt has extensive routine and precise local knowledge of the site. The operational planning was therefore not complicated, but it was nevertheless carried out meticulously and checked several times.

On the day of Ms. Samak’s arrival, three of our investigators went to the airport. Two monitored the arrivals hall, where travelers from the flight named by Mr. Naris were expected to gather; the third case manager waited outside in the car near the taxis in order to react immediately if the target person departed quickly. The target person of Aaden Detective Agency Frankfurt entered the arrivals area alone, but was picked up there by a broad-shouldered male person. The greeting took place without physical contact. Both then went to the short-term parking area, where one of our detective vehicles was also parked. The colleague in the taxi area carefully positioned himself in traffic so that, in the event of departure from the short-term parking lot, he could follow immediately or “cut off the route” and thus begin the surveillance. Accordingly, the teams observed the target person and her pickup driver with two vehicles on the way to downtown Frankfurt. Not surprisingly, the trip ended in the red-light district and Ms. Samak entered the previously identified address in Elbestraße.

Personal Visit by the Detective to the Establishment

To eliminate every last doubt, the operations management of Aaden Commercial Detective Agency Frankfurt researched the advertisements for the known address in the following days. In fact, an ad was placed here for a Thai woman, but under a different name and with pictures that did not show the face or were pixelated. The investigator who had been active before therefore could not avoid an appointment with the woman being advertised. He was let in and introduced to the woman — it was unmistakably Ms. Samak. After this final confirmation, our Frankfurt detective pretended to have changed his mind, which earned him some hostile looks and comments from the receptionist, and left the establishment. Mr. Naris was immediately informed of the findings. The assignment was therefore completed.

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Note: For reasons of discretion and data protection, the locations and certain personal details have been altered without changing the substance of the actual events.