He lured her emotionally ... and threatened to send her pictures to her brother

A director seizes 235 thousand dirhams from a Gulf country with a "marriage promise"

The Dubai Public Prosecution referred an Arab director to the criminal court on charges of seizing 235 thousand dirhams, in addition to other sums in payments and checks from (Gulf) after he impersonated a Gulf and deluded her of his desire to marry her and obtained from her the money under the pretext of preparing the marital home, and blackmailed her with videos And pictures sent to him, and attributed to her shameless matters and threatened to expose them if the competent authorities reported him.

The victim, a 32-year-old employee, said that she met the 45-year-old accused through a marriage site, and offered her to marry in April of last year, after he had deluded her that he was a Gulf like her, then their relationship strengthened over time and she trusted him, until That he started asking her for money as a help.

She added that she used to issue him checks to help him pay the rent and other things, and because of her overconfidence in him, she sent him personal photos and videos of her, so he began to threaten her to send her pictures to her brother if she stopped helping him financially, so she responded to him for a period of time for fear of him.

She explained that the total sums that she transferred to the accused amounted to 235 thousand dirhams in cash, in addition to other transfers in small amounts, and 11 checks were issued to him, but she was surprised by him submitting a report against her with the checks that she had written for him as without balance, pointing out that he was not satisfied with that, but rather informed her brother who She provided him with his phone number to ask him about their marriage. He also used to blackmail her through messages exchanged between them on the "WhatsApp" application by sending her pictures to her brother.

For his part, the defendant said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that the checks issued to him by the victim were in return for lending him an amount of 50 thousand dirhams, which contradicted the content of a phone chat between them requesting that she lend him sums of money.

The Dubai Public Prosecution charged him with committing the felony of threatening to use the means of information technology to attribute matters perilous to honor and consideration, and misdemeanors of insult by using information technology and fraud to seize the money of others.

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