I’m 99.9% sure I just witnessed the purchase of a mail order Moldovan bride by a middle-aged American at my upscale hotel in Chisinau in broad daylight.
During my two weeks at the LeoGrand Hotel I’ve also seen Germans, Russians, and one extremely bombastic Brit (how pretentious this asshole was while doing something so inhuman is impossible to understate) leave the hotel bar with prostitutes. The Turkish manager clearly condones this, as during my two weeks here I’ve come to observe how he micromanages everything, so for him to claim that he’s unaware of what’s going on or can’t stop it is about as believable as Kevin Costner’s accent as Robin Hood.
The hotel is not coincidentally owned by a Turkish conglomerate; Moldovan authorities struggling to stop human trafficking in Moldova with the assistance of IOM and the US State Department have run up against a lack of initiative, to put it mildly, by Turkish authorities to stop Turkish middlemen from selling Moldovan girls into slavery elsewhere (Dubai, London, etc.). The same conglomerate that owns this hotel also built the horrifically punned MallDova as well as the new-ish airport terminal in Chisinau, while also earning the ire of the Moldovan government after it tore down — without consulting anyone — one of the oldest buildings in the capital for an expansion of the hotel.
I don’t intend to associate an entire country with this particularly heinous barbarity, but from my perspective it seems that very few from Moldova’s lord of centuries ago come to Chisinau with good intentions.
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