The Dubai Criminal Court began the trial of an Asian director who systematically harassed an employee of his company, using his occupational authority, until he forced her to resign after being pursued everywhere, and a witness to the Public Prosecution investigations revealed that he used to appoint women in the company to harass them, and that he saw him do That was with the victim, and the prosecution charged him with indecent assault.
In detail, the victim said that she joined a company in Dubai, and the director immediately began to court her and expressed his desire to establish an affair with her, away from the employees, pointing out that he invited her to his birthday party at a hotel after he confirmed to her the presence of all his family members, then she was surprised He alone, and flirted with her there, but he got away with it.
She added that he used to call her on a daily basis to his office and flirt with her body, then she was surprised by him one day trying to harass her, so he stopped him and left the office crying, and one of her colleagues, who inquired about what was happening, noticed that when she told him, he told her that she is not the first victim.
She indicated that the defendant contacted her later and apologized and promised her not to repeat it, but he did it again after less than a week, but he did not notice the presence of her colleague who saw his behavior, and he joined him to the office where a conversation took place between them, then her colleague called her at night and advised her to leave the company because The molested director would not leave her alone, so she decided to resign, but the accused refused her resignation and promised again that he would not be subjected to it.
She added that the defendant later commissioned her to purchase the company’s belongings from a store, so she went with the driver, and when she left she was surprised that the manager was waiting for her outside the store after he spent the driver, and told her that he would deliver it to her residence, so she refused, but insisted on it, and she installed it, and stopped the car in an area Dark and attacked her, but she defended herself, opened the door and ran away.
She explained that she was under the pressure of her need to work, but she called and told him that she would leave the company because he had lied to her several times, and could not bear his actions in the future, so he apologized warmly and asked her to take two or three days of leave until she calmed down and could return later.
She reported that she had stayed again, and one day I told him that she was sick and needed to go home, so he told her that the company driver would take her to the hospital, and when she went to the car and sat in the back seat, I was surprised by him to enter and sit next to her, before the driver arrived, and then caught her attempted harassment With her, but she slapped him, so he left the vehicle, got involved in tears, the driver saw her and brought her to the house, after which he threatened to cancel her residence and issued a report against him, justifying her delay in doing so because of her ignorance of the laws and fear for her livelihood.
For his part, a colleague in the Public Prosecution Investigations said that he monitored the defendant’s abuses with the victim and saw him harassing her at one time, and blamed him for that, but the director asked him not to interfere if he wanted to continue his job, pointing out that the defendant resorted to him later to mediate with his colleague when She threatened to report, and offered him 40,000 dirhams to persuade her not to file a lawsuit against him.
The witness added that he had already spoken to the victim and informed her that she was the decision-maker and could not be dissuaded from her position, but reporting on it would lead to the destruction of his family and the threat to the company, indicating that she refused in light of the violation he had suffered from the director who used to harass female employees before her.