Khadija Safdar

He has compromising material about me.

She felt that he had this like enormous leverage over her and that she really had to keep him in her good graces because if she didn't, things could go wrong for her.

People who are involved in the case have called it similar to a pyramid scheme.

Several of the victims that are public even now, they have admitted that they also recruited and brought in other girls, you know, into his scheme.

And if you were sending profiles of women to him, he would like leave you alone and you would be in his good graces for a bit.

You could visit your family or you would get some alone time.

And so the incentive was clear that like that was like what you were expected to do.

And one of the features was that, like, when these women had been involved in that, they started feeling like they were part of it, you know?

And then that actually makes it harder for them to leave.

Because once you feel like you've done something wrong or that you're complicit...

You know, you can't say anything.

And that was, I think, deliberate.

Yeah, let me actually read her words for you.

She says, A former prosecutor Khadija interviewed compared the situation that Svetlana was in to domestic violence.

She said that like the way that those relationships are not clear-cut, the victim will often go back again and again and not see, and you'll see like, you know, like all these wonderful interactions, but that doesn't often negate the fact that this is a relationship of domestic violence.

Yeah, a relationship of abuse.

Exactly.

And so my source said that this is similar.

This trafficking, you know, schemes are similar and they have to be looked at in a more comprehensive way and not just, you know, like you can't just like pull an email and think you understand what took place.

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