KARAWANG, Indonesia — Indonesian mother-of-three Aslem was a domestic worker in Dubai when she started wiring cash to a self-professed shaman, believing that he would honor his promise to magically multiply her hard-earned wages. But she returned home in 2022 penniless and in shock, saying she had been swindled out of her life savings by a trickster who now faces trial for his complex scams, and charges of murdering nine of his victims. 'I have nothing now,' Aslem, 42, told AFP from her cramped, dilapidated house in a remote village in Karawang, West Java.

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