No one paid any attention.

The bars were strong and wouldn’t budge.

Marina spent 3 hours in that room.

She tried to break down the door, but it was metal and wouldn’t give way.

She tried to find something to cut through the bars with, but there was nothing suitable.

She started to panic and cry.

In the evening, the door opened.

Vikram entered, accompanied by two men in dark clothes.

Their faces were serious, no smiles.

Marina screamed that this was illegal detention, that she would call the police and the embassy.

Vikram calmly said that her phone was not working and would not work, that she was in a private building that belonged to him, that no one knew where she was.

She tried to break through to the door, but one of the men stopped her, holding her by the arms.

Vikram took a syringe out of his pocket and said it was a sedative to prevent her from hurting herself.

Marina screamed and struggled.

The man held her tightly.

Vikram injected her in the shoulder.

A minute later, Marina felt weak, her legs buckled.

The man picked her up and laid her on the bed.

Her consciousness was fading.

She tried to speak, but her tongue wouldn’t obey her.

Vikram sat on a chair nearby, watching her.

The last thing she remembered was him saying, “You’re perfect.

You’re exactly what I’ve been looking for.

” When Marina didn’t get in touch by the evening of June 15th, her mother became worried.

Usually, her daughter responded quickly, writing about how she was doing and where she was.

She wrote a message.

It was read, but there was no reply.

She called, no answer.

By the morning of June 16th, her mother called the agency in Dubai.

They said that Marina had flown to Jaipur with an agency representative.

They gave her Aisha’s phone number.

Her mother called Aisha who answered.

She said that they had arrived safely, checked into a hotel, and Marina was resting.

Everything was fine.

My mother asked to speak to her daughter.

Aisha said that Marina was asleep and she didn’t want to wake her.

My mother insisted.

Aisha promised that Marina would call back when she woke up.

There was no call.

In the evening, the mother called Aisha again, but there was no answer.

She called the agency where they said that they had also lost contact with Aisha, but that this was normal as there were communication problems in rural India.

On June 17th, her mother went to the Polish embassy in Warsaw.

She explained the situation.

The embassy contacted the embassy in Delhi and they began an investigation.

They requested information from the agency in Dubai.

The agency provided a copy of the contract, airline tickets and the address of the hotel in Jaipur.

The embassy in Delhi contacted the hotel.

The hotel said that there had been a reservation but the guests had not checked in so the room had been cancelled.

They contacted the local police in Jaipur.

The police began a search.

On the evening of June 18th, my mother received a call from the embassy in Dubai.

An official restrained voice delivered the terrible news.

Marina had died in a car accident.

The car she was traveling in collided with a truck on the highway between Jaipur and Udipur.

There was a fire, severe burns, and the body was identified by her documents.

Her mother did not believe it.

It was impossible.

Her daughter was in Jaipur at the hotel and was supposed to be on a shoot.

What highway? What truck? She demanded explanations, details.

She wanted to see the body.

The embassy explained, “According to the Indian police, Marina and Aisha were driving to Udipur for a shoot on the lake.

There was an accident on the way.

The driver also died.

All three burned in the car.

The bodies were badly burned, making identification by their faces impossible.

They were identified by passports found in the wreckage.

The mother demanded an exumation, a DNA test and an independent investigation.

The embassy said that according to Indian law, bodies with such burns are cremated quickly in accordance with sanitary standards.

The cremation had already taken place.

The ashes will be sent to the family.

On June 22nd, the mother received a package, an urn with ashes, a death certificate in English and Hindi, a hospital report, and a police report.

All the documents looked official with stamps, signatures, and dates.

The report stated, “The accident occurred on June 19th at around 300 pm on National Highway 48.

collision with a truck carrying chemicals, fire, three victims, all died at the scene.

The mother did not want to believe it, but the documents were official.

She hired a lawyer in Poland who contacted a lawyer in India.

The Indian lawyer requested the case files.

He received a response.

The case was closed.

The accident was recognized as an accident caused by the truck driver who fled the scene.

The funeral took place on June 29th in Warsaw.

A closed coffin with an ern.

Mother, father, sister, friends.

Everyone was in shock.

Unable to comprehend how this could have happened.

A young healthy girl went to work and now there were ashes in an urn.

The agency in Dubai paid compensation to the family, $50,000 in insurance.

They offered their condolences.

A representative of the agency said that Aisha who died with Marina was an experienced escort and that nothing like this had ever happened before.

Vikram Singh sent his condolences through the agency.

He wrote that he was shocked by the tragedy, that Marina was an excellent professional and that his family was grieving.

He offered additional financial assistance but the family refused.

The case was closed.

Marina Kovalska officially died on June 19th, 2018 in India in a car accident.

But Marina did not die on June 19th.

Marina woke up in a white room.

Her head was splitting.

Her body felt like cotton wool and her mouth was dry.

She tried to get up but couldn’t.

Her arms and legs were tied to the bed with soft straps.

She looked around.

The walls were white.

The ceiling was white.

and the lamps were bright.

To her right was medical equipment, monitors, IVs, and some kind of machines.

On the left was a window covered with curtains.

It smelled like antiseptic.

She tried to scream, but her voice was weak and horse.

A minute later, the door opened and a man in a white coat entered wearing a mask and a cap.

He approached the bed and checked the monitor.

Marina asked where she was and what was happening.

The man did not answer.

He checked the IV, wrote something down on his tablet, and left.

She lay there for several hours, periodically falling asleep.

When she woke up, she tried to free herself from the straps, but they were strong and would not budge.

In the evening, judging by the fact that the light in the window went out, another person came in.

He was also wearing a white coat, but without a mask.

He was a man of about 50 with gray hair and attentive eyes.

He introduced himself as Dr. Malhotra.

He said that she was in a private clinic and that everything would be fine if she cooperated.

Marina screamed that she had been kidnapped and demanded to be released.

The doctor calmly explained that she was there under a contract she had signed.

The contract provided for a medical procedure for which she would receive a large sum of money.

If she refused to cooperate, it would be a breach of contract and the consequences would be unpleasant.

Marina screamed that she had not signed any contract for medical procedures, that it was illegal.

The doctor took out a folder and showed her the documents.

There was her signature on a contract for voluntary participation in a biological tissue donation program.

The date was June 14th.

She did not remember signing it, but the signature looked like hers.

The doctor said that the signature was certified, the contract was legal, and she had no choice.

The procedure was scheduled for the next day.

The doctor said that she would be given anesthesia.

She would not feel anything.

There would be a recovery period after the procedure and then she would be released with full payment.

Marina asked what kind of procedure it was.

The doctor replied, “Evasively, collection of donor material.

The details are irrelevant.

She didn’t sleep that night.

She tried to come up with an escape plan, but her hands and feet were tied, and there was nothing in the room that could be used to cut the straps.

The door was locked from the outside.

The window was covered with bars.

In the morning, two orderlys came, untied her from the bed, but held her by the arms and led her down the corridor.

She saw other wards, some with people lying in beds connected to machines.

It all looked like a real clinic, but the atmosphere was eerie, the staff silent, the patients motionless.

They took her to the operating room.

There was a table, lamps, instruments, and an anesthesiologist.

They put her on the table and secured her with straps.

The anesthesiologist put a mask on her face and told her to count to 10.

She counted to five and fell into darkness.

When she woke up, the pain was unbearable.

Her face burned as if it had been dipped in boiling water.

She tried to touch her face, but her hands were tied down.

She screamed.

A nurse came and gave her an injection.

The pain dulled and became bearable.

Marina lay there trying to understand what had been done to her.

Her face was completely bandaged with only slits for her eyes, nose, and mouth.

Dr. Malhotra came in the evening.

He said that the procedure had been successful.

Now the healing period would begin, which would take several weeks.

She had to lie still, take her medication, and not touch the bandages.

Marina asked through the bandages what they had done to her.

The doctor replied that they had taken donor material from her face, a skin graft for reconstructive surgery.

Her face would heal.

Scars would remain, but it could all be corrected with plastic surgery later.

She didn’t believe it.

A skin graft did not explain such pain, such extensive bandages, but it hurt to talk, so she fell silent.

The days passed.

They changed her bandages, gave her painkillers, and fed her through a tube.

The pain gradually subsided but remained constant and aching.

She felt that something was very wrong with her face.

After 2 weeks, some of the bandages were removed.

She was given a mirror.

Marina looked and did not recognize herself.

Her face was gone.

Instead of skin, there was a red raw surface like meat without its membrane.

Her eyes, nose, and mouth were in place, but all the skin on her face was gone.

It was monstrous.

She screamed, dropped the mirror, and began to thrash about hysterically.

The orderlys rushed in, restrained her, and the doctor gave her a sedative injection.

She fell back into darkness.

When she woke up, Dr. Malhotra was sitting next to her.

He explained calmly without emotion.

They had removed a full skin graft from her face.

All of the epidermis and part of the dermis from her hairline to her chin.

It was a specific procedure requested by the client.

Her face would heal, new skin would grow, but it would take months and her face would be scarred.

Marina was too shocked to speak.

She just lay there staring at the ceiling.

She realized that she had been used not as a donor to save someone’s life, but as a source of material for something else.

She asked why they needed the skin from her face.

The doctor did not answer.

He only said that the contract had been fulfilled and that in a month when the wound had healed, she would be released.

But Marina knew they would not release her.

People capable of such things do not leave witnesses.

3 weeks passed.

The wound on her face began to heal, covered with a scab and new thin skin.

The pain lessened, but she was no longer allowed to look in the mirror.

She knew she looked terrible.

They stopped giving her strong sedatives, only mild painkillers.

Her head cleared.

She began to plan her escape.

She studied the clinic’s routine, memorizing when the nurses came and when the staff changed shifts.

On the evening of July 27th, when the nurse brought her dinner, Marina pretended to lose consciousness.

The nurse was frightened and came closer to check her pulse.

Marina hit her on the head with the tray and the nurse fell.

Marina jumped out of the ward and ran down the corridor.

She didn’t know where to run.

She just ran.

She passed several doors, turned the corner, saw the stairs, and rushed down.

On the first floor, there was a long corridor at the end of which she could see a glass door, the exit.

She ran towards it barefoot in a hospital gown, gasping for breath.

She had almost reached the door when someone grabbed her shoulder from behind.

It was a huge, strong, orderly.

She tried to break free, screaming and scratching.

He held her tight, not letting her go.

Dr. Malhotra ran up, followed by two more orderlys.

They twisted her arms and dragged her back upstairs.

She screamed that they were murderers, that her family was looking for her, that everything would be revealed.

The doctor did not answer.

They brought her back to the ward and tied her to the bed.

The doctor took out a syringe and filled it with a clear liquid.

Marina asked what it was.

The doctor replied calmly, “Air.

” Injecting air into a vein causes an air embolism.

Air bubbles enter the bloodstream and block vessels in the lungs or brain.

Death comes quickly and looks like cardiac arrest.

There are almost no traces left.

Marina begged, cried, promised to keep quiet, promised anything.

The doctor did not listen.

He took her hand, found a vein in the crook of her elbow, and inserted the needle.

She felt the cold liquid enter her vein, then a sharp pain in her chest.

She couldn’t breathe.

Her heart beat fast, then slowed, then stopped.

Her last thought was of her mother.

Rajes had been working as a servant in the Maharaja’s palace in Jaipur for the last 3 years.

It was a lowly position, cleaning, serving food, running errands.

The pay was good.

The conditions were acceptable.

The palace was huge with dozens of rooms, most of which were off limits to the regular staff.

Vikram Singh, the Maharaja’s nephew, lived in a separate wing of the palace.

He had a reputation for being eccentric and withdrawn.

He kept to himself, rarely interacted with the staff, and spent most of his time in his chambers or traveling to Dubai on business.

Rajes cleaned the common rooms and sometimes the corridors near Vikram’s quarters, but he never entered his rooms.

They were cleaned by special servants hired personally by Vikram.

But on January 23rd, 2011 19, when Rajesh was passing by Vikram’s rooms, the door was a jar.

There was no one inside.

Curiosity got the better of him, and he peeked inside.

The room was large and luxuriously furnished, but what caught his attention was a doll standing in the corner by the window.

It was humansized, dressed in a wedding sari with jewelry around its neck and hands and a veil on its head.

Rajes moved closer.

The doll was incredibly realistic.

The face looked alive.

the details of the skin, the pores, the slight blush on the cheeks, the eyes were closed, the eyelashes long, the hair was real, light brown, styled in a complex hairstyle.

He looked closer.

On the doll’s face, above the left eyebrow, there was a mole, small, dark, and next to it, slightly higher, a thin scar, barely noticeable.

Something about this face seemed familiar to him.

Rajes couldn’t understand what it was, but the feeling was strong.

He took out his phone and photographed the doll.

Then he heard footsteps in the hallway and quickly left the room.

In the evening in his room, he looked at the photo.

The doll’s face was too real, too alive.

He enlarged the image and studied the details.

The mole, the scar, the shape of the lips, the slant of the eyes.

Rajes spent several hours on the internet, not knowing what he was looking for.

He typed in various search terms, realistic dolls, silicone dolls, sex dolls.

He found similar products, but none were as detailed.

Then he stumbled upon a news article about missing models in Dubai.

He read it out of curiosity.

One of the articles mentioned Polish model Marina Kowalsska who died in a car accident in India.

There was a photo in the article.

Rajes enlarged the photo of the girl.

Light hair, European appearance, and above her left eyebrow, a mole.

He compared it to the photo of the doll.

The coincidence was impossible to ignore.

The same mole in the same place, the same thin scar above the eyebrow.

Rajes felt a chill down his spine.

It couldn’t be a coincidence.

A doll with the face of a dead girl.

What did it mean? He began to dig deeper.

He found information about Marina’s death, an accident, a fire, cremation.

He found references to Vikram Singh as her last employer.

He found references to other models who had disappeared or died in similar circumstances in the region.

The more he read, the scarier it became.

Marina wasn’t the first.

Over the past 5 years, seven young European women who worked as models in Dubai or India had disappeared or died in accidents.

All of them were blonde between the ages of 20 and 27 and all under similar circumstances.

Rajes realized he had stumbled upon something terrible, but he didn’t know what to do.

Go to the police.

with what? A photo of a doll.

They wouldn’t listen to him.

At best, they would fire him.

At worst, accuse him of theft and slander.

He decided to gather more evidence.

Over the next few weeks, he tried to get into Vikram’s quarters again, but the door was always locked.

Once he saw Vikram enter with a large sealed box labeled fragile, handle with care.

On February 15th, Vikram left for Dubai for two weeks.

Rajes knew this was his chance.

He bribed the cleaning lady who had the keys to the rooms, gave her 2,000 rupees, said he had forgotten something important inside, and asked her to open the door for 5 minutes.

The cleaning lady agreed, opened the door, and said she would wait in the hallway.

Rajes went inside.

The doll was standing in the same place by the window, but now there were two of them.

The second one stood nearby, also in a wedding dress, also incredibly realistic.

The face was different, dark-haired, Asian in appearance.

Rajie photographed both dolls from all angles.

Then he noticed an album on the shelf, thick with a leather binding.

He opened it.

Inside were photographs, dozens of photos of beautiful young women.

He recognized some of the faces from news articles about missing persons.

Some he saw for the first time.

He photographed several pages of the album.

Then he noticed some documents on the table.

He picked up the top one, a contract with a private clinic in Jaipur for specialized dermatological procedures.

He photographed it.

Time was running out.

Rajes quickly looked around again and left the room.

The cleaning lady closed the door and left.

Rees returned to his room, transferred all the photos to his computer, copied them to a flash drive, and hid them.

Now he had to decide what to do next.

He understood that he had evidence of something terrible in his hands, but he also understood that Vikram Singh was an influential man with money, connections, and protection.

Going to the local police was useless.

Everyone there was on his side.

Rajes remembered a reporter he had seen on the news investigating corruption in Rajasthan.

He found his contacts details on the internet and wrote an anonymous letter with a brief description of the situation.

The reply came 3 days later.

The reporter asked for evidence to be sent.

Rajes sent some of the photos, the dolls, pages from the album, documents.

A week later, the reporter replied that he was starting an investigation and asked for more information about the clinic, Vikram Singh and the missing girls.

Rajes gathered information bit by bit.

He eavesdropped on conversations, memorized names and copied documents when he could.

After 2 months, the reporter had enough material to publish.

The article was published on April 27th, 2019 in a major Indian newspaper.

The headline read, “The prince collector, how a rich heir turned missing models into dolls.

” The article was detailed with all the evidence, photographs, and documents that had been collected.

It described the scheme.

Vikram Singh lured young European models under the pretext of work, staged fake car accidents, officially declared them dead, but in fact took them to a private clinic.

There the girls had full-face skin grafts removed which were used to create hyperrealistic bride dolls.

Vikram was obsessed with the idea of owning perfect brides with European looks which he collected in his chambers.

After the procedure, the girls were killed and their bodies destroyed.

Their families were sent ashes which were actually those of strangers or animals.

The clinic created fake death certificates and everything was organized through corrupt officials.

The article caused a scandal.

The international media picked up the story.

The Polish embassy demanded an investigation.

Europole got involved in the case.

Indian police arrested Vikram Singh on May 3rd.

They searched the palace and seized dolls, documents, and computers.

Seven dolls were found in Vikram’s chambers, each with the face of a missing girl.

The clinic in Jaipur was closed and Dr. Malhotra and the entire staff were arrested.

Freezers with remains were found in the basement of the clinic.

DNA analysis confirmed that these were the bodies of the missing women.

The investigation lasted 8 months.

It was established that Vikram Singh began his activities in 2014.

There were nine victims in total.

Seven were identified, two were not.

All were young, beautiful, and of European appearance.

all died after their facial skin was removed to create dolls.

Vikram did not fully admit his guilt.

He claimed that the girls had signed contracts voluntarily and that the procedures were legal, but the evidence was irrefutable.

The trial began in February 2020.

Vikram Singh was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Dr. Malhotra and three clinic employees also received long prison terms.

The families of the victims were paid compensation.

Marina’s mother received information that her daughter had indeed died, but not in a car accident, but at the hands of murderers.

It was a small consolation.

At least the truth had come out.

Rajesa was awarded for his courage and assistance in the investigation.

He resigned from the palace, moved to another city, and started a new life.

He says that he still sees those dolls standing by the window in his dreams, their frozen, overly lifelike faces, and the mole above the left eyebrow.

Marina Kovalskaya’s story became a warning to thousands of young women dreaming of a career in the modeling business abroad.

It became a reminder that behind beautiful contracts and promises of big money, a monstrous truth may lie hidden, and that sometimes a disappearance is not an accident, but a carefully planned crime.

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