- City Fajr Shuruq Duhr Asr Magrib Isha
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A man is on trial in Dubai for threatening and blackmailing his woman colleague for money. (File)
An Egyptian engineer allegedly threatened via email his colleague that he would tell people that she was his mistress if she did not give him money for keeping silent.
MM, 39, is also accused of stealing the same colleague’s iPhone 6.
ER, 29, Filipina secretary, told police that on February 1, her mobile went missing after she left her desk to go to her manager’s office.
Rifaa police station circulated a message about the missing mobile.
Two days later she received a phone call on the company’s landline from her colleague MM who offered to help her find her mobile. He asked her for the mobile’s personal code.
ER gave her colleague the personal code and on the next day, another colleague told her that her mobile showed online status.
Three weeks later, she received an email on her personal email and the sender said he has all her mobile’s accounts, videos and pictures.
The threat she received read: “Do not come up with stupid things and you will suffer if you thought of revenge.”
She reported the message to the police who found out that the sender was her colleague MM.
Apparently, the accused had sent her more than one threatening email in which he claimed that she had an illicit relationship with him that resulted in her pregnancy.
In the emails, MM claimed that he had helped her while she was pregnant to avoid jail.
ER denied before the police of having any relationship with the accused and said that her daughter is four years old and that she knew MM only since a year ago.
Police arrested MM who initially denied stealing the woman’s mobile and threatening her by emails.
When police came to search his car, MM hid the mobile in the boot underneath the cover of the spare tyre, Second Sergeant Abdul Hamid Musaad testified.
Policemen found the woman’s mobile and he admitted that had taken the mobile from her as a guarantee for paying him back the money he had lent her.
MM later admitted before the prosecution that he had sent the woman threatening emails to scare her and make her return the money he had lent her.
Dubai Prosecution supplied the court with translated copies of the emails that included threatening and blackmailing phrases.
The court will reconvene on September 6.
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