Kovalchuk, a Ukrainian model with 7,000 followers on Instagram, claims she was only in Dubai for the night having missed her flight to Thailand.

Ultimately she would be missing for over a week before being discovered on a roadside, scalped and bloodied. Her family had feared she had been sold into “sexual slavery”.

Kovalchuk says she was invited to a party by a young Russian man in a hotel lobby. She told Russian outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti: “[He] offered for her to stay in his room and claimed that his father could fly her to Thailand on a private jet.”

But when she accompanied him to said party, she was teased for not drinking, before being “shoved” and ordered to carry out sexual acts with businessmen.