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He eventually started making extra money connecting tourists and potential brides with marriage brokers, augmenting his income from driving, interpreting, running an internet cafe and selling frozen meatballs.

The role of Islamic State marriage broker was familiar for el-Faisal, prosecutors said, calling that a form of material support to ISIS.

It often starts with marriage brokers who alert women in villages and provincial towns about men visiting from South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore.

Pakistan became a focus of Chinese marriage brokers last year, and activists say that since then as many as 1,000 women and girls have been married off to Chinese men.

But when Sophia confided in the marriage broker, he was furious.