Skype strip request lands him in Dubai Court

The matrimonial bond did not prevent both a man from Dubai and a woman from a GCC country from spending time together that led the man to Dubai Courts.

AA, 45-year-old Syrian sales manager, allegedly blackmailed his ‘beloved’ via SMS and threatened to post inappropriate videos and pictures of her on the Internet if she did not strip off her clothes via Skype.

AA is also accused of threatening the woman to force her come to the UAE and offer him sex.

The woman, JB, whose nationality and age were not mentioned in the records, reported the threats to Dubai Police via an email that she had sent in June last year after the man asked for more than she had already given him.

In her email, JB told the police that she knew the accused via a woman called Sara who claimed to be his sister. That was through the BlackBerry messenger.

“Sara and I started chatting and our relation developed into friendship and so we exchanged pictures. One day, Sara told me that her brother AA admires me and wants to marry me. I spoke to him initially through his sister’s mobile and then via Skype. While talking to him, I did not know that he was recording our conversations and the screen.

“One day, he threatened to post my pictures on social media and asked me to strip off. I submitted to his request as I was scared of scandal. Later, he started blackmailing by asking me to come to Dubai to have sex with him or else he would post on the Internet the materials in his possession,” the victim informed the police in her email.

After investigating the complaint, police arrested AA, and searching his two laptops and other electronic stuff, police found inappropriate pictures of many women including that of the complainant.

Police also retrieved from AA’s mobile phone threat messages that he had sent to the victim asking her to resume talking to him or else he would post the materials.

The accused told the police that he was threatening the woman just to scare her and in fact he did not want to execute the threats.

He also told police that she broke his heart when she cut off her relationship with him.

“I wanted to know why she broke the relationship. When she told me that she wants to give her attention to her husband and children, I got very angry and so I threatened her but I did not intend to execute the threats,” the accused told investigators.

When he appeared before the court, AA denied threatening and blackmailing the complainant but admitted to talking to her, claiming that it was only via BlackBerry.

However, when the judge confronted him with the information mentioned in the records about talking to the woman via Skype, the accused admitted to blackmailing and saying that they mainly talked via mobile messages.

The judge then asked the accused if he is married and as he answered affirmatively, he asked him if he has children. As the accused’s answer was yes, the judge asked him: “You are married and you have a family. Do you have time for such stuff?”

The accused told the judge it was only chatting.

The court will give its sentence on June 30.

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