CRIME OF FLASHIN'
Dubai-bye! UAE boots nude balcony beauties
Dubai will deport the 11 Ukrainian women who were arrested for public debauchery after they turned heads in the emirate by posing nude on a high-rise balcony in a viral stunt, according to reports.
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates’ largest city detained the cheeky women on charges of public debauchery and producing pornography.
A Russian businessman was also detained for his alleged involvement, although his company denied he had anything to do with the X-rated shoot.
And a report from Ukrainian outlet Strana identified a Kievborn playboy, Vitaliy Grechin, as the person who allegedly set up the event.
Grechin did not return a message on his Facebook page — which features numerous photos of him surrounded by beautiful women in various states of undress.
Images of the public display of nudity made waves across social media and shocked sensibilities throughout the sheikdom, where a legal code based on Islamic law, or Shariah, has landed foreigners in the slammer for lesser offenses.
Dubai Attorney General Essam Issa al-Humaidan on Tuesday announced that those involved in the photo shoot would be sent back to their countries, without elaborating further.
The city’s police have declined to identify those detained, but one suspect was reported by the US Sun as Yana Graboshchuk, a 27-year-old model from Ukraine who was caught thanks to a distinctive tattoo on her butt that matches her social-media snaps.
The green-eyed brunette stunner’s family said they thought she was on a holiday and expressed shock that she was involved in the headline-grabbing incident.
“She went on holiday, and then I don’t know what came next,” brother Taras, 20, told the news outlet. “Yes, she had planned a photo shoot there . . . But I had no more information about it.”
The rapid action announced by the attorney general is rare for the legal system in Dubai, where such cases typically go to trial or are otherwise adjudicated before deportation.
“The public prosecutor ordered the deportation of the accused for their behavior contrary to public morals,” al-Humaidan said, adding that the women had been charged with violating a public-decency law.
The scandal arose just days before Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, and as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in nearby Doha, Qatar, for an official state visit.
Dubai has increasingly promoted itself as a popular destination for Russians on holiday.