Crime File: Pay Dh1.8m or your photos will be out

Extorter trapped and caught by police

Man demanded Dh1.8m after threatening to publicise businessman’s photos

A man who tried to extort a businessman to pay him Dh1.8 million or he would publicise private pictures that would defame him was caught by police in a well-planned trap at a shopping mall in Dubai, a newspaper said on Monday.

The unnamed man, a sales person at a local firm, had called the businessman and told him to pay $500,000 or he would publish photographs of him on the internet, threatening him not to play games.

“The businessman said the salesman mentioned his wife, children and grandchildren and threatened to contact them all,” Emirat Alyoum daily said.

“The businessman then told the police, who asked him to pretend that he agreed to his demands…a man then came to a shopping mall to collect the money, which he then handed to another man, who in turn gave the money to the main culprit…police were waiting for them and they were arrested.”

The paper did not identify the businessman but said the main defendant is now standing trial in Dubai.

Emirati robbed and killed

A 58-year-old Emirati man visiting Ras Al Khaimah was killed by two Arabs who stalked him and robbed his money to buy new mobile phones.

The unnamed man from another emirate was in Ras Al Khaimah to inspect a new house under construction when he was grabbed by the two.

Police later identified the two men, who confessed to strangling the Emirati to death after learning he had a sum of money with him.

“Police found out about the man’s death after he went to Ras Al Khaimah and his family lost contact with him,” Emarat Alyoum daily said.


Maid killers seek pardon from victim’s relatives

Three Emirati men raped one maid then murdered another

Three Emirati men who murdered an Asian housemaid in Fujeirah will try to contact her relatives to persuade them to accept blood money and save them from possible execution, a newspaper reported on Monday.

A criminal court in the emirate gave the three until today to get in touch with the victim’s relatives before resuming their trial for premeditated murder.

“The court adjourned hearings to today so the three will have a chance to contact the victim’s relatives,” Alittihad daily said.

The three defendants raped an Asian maid, in her 20s, at a house in Fujeirah nearly a year ago before trying to rape another maid in the same house while asleep. The 50-year-old maid tried to resist them, prompting them to strangle her to death, the paper said.

Under Islamic law, a killer could walk free if pardoned by the victim’s relatives in return for diya (blood money).

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