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28 March 2024

Ex-suitor on trial in Dubai for blackmailing woman

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By Eman Al Baik

A man allegedly blackmailed a woman to whom he had proposed marriage by threatening to show his mother her pictures which she had sent him, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

HKO, 24, jobless Emirati, is also accused of threatening DOS with causing her a scandal by sending her pictures to her brothers also and posting them on the Internet.

He is also accused forcing DOS to pay him Dh6,500 in return for deleting her pictures from his mobile phone and of misusing Etisalat service and annoying the victim.

The 25-year-old victim testified that she met the accused in a shopping mall where they exchanged phone numbers.

“We started talking over the phone and fell in love after some time. He promised to marry me and asked me to send him some pictures so that he could show them to his mother. I sent him three pictures but after a week he told me that his mother had refused me

“I then asked him to end our relationship. He noted that he had my pictures. When I asked him to delete my pictures, he asked me to pay him Dh1,500. I agreed and paid him the amount. After some time, he told me that he had not deleted the pictures and asked me to pay him Dh2,000 for deleting them.

“I gave him over the amount, thinking that he will fulfill his promise. A couple of days later he asked me to pay him Dh3,500. I gave him that amount too.

“He stopped blackmailing me for a couple of month but resumed calling me and told me that he did not delete the pictures and asked for Dh25,000. When I told him that I don’t have so much money, he threatened to publish my pictures and send them to my brothers,” she testified.

The victim notified Dubai Police’s Ameen service who called the accused. However, the accused called the victim and told her that he is not afraid of the police and asked her to drop the complaint.

“When I refused to drop the complaint, he came to our house and asked the maid for my brothers to pressurise me pay him the amount. As he could not talk to my brothers, he sent me an SMS threatening to cause me a scandal. I immediately went to Al Rashidiya police station and lodged a complaint,” she testified.

The Court will give its verdict next month.