A fraudster seizes 235,000 dirhams from a Gulf Arab country after catching it from the "marriage" site

The Public Prosecution in Dubai referred to the Criminal Court an Arab manager who seized 235 thousand dirhams in cash in addition to other sums on payments and checks from a Gulf woman after impersonating a Gulf person and deluding her with his desire to marry her and obtaining money from her under the pretext of preparing the marital home, and blackmailing her with videos and pictures She sent it to him, and he assigned her to shameful matters and threatened to expose her 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, and then their relationship strengthened over time and she trusted him, until he began He asks for money as a help.

She added that she was writing him checks to help him pay the rent and other things, and for her confidence in him, she sent him personal photos and videos of her, so he started threatening 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 added 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 wrote to him as without balance, noting that he was not satisfied with that, but rather informed her brother Who provided her with his phone number to ask about their marriage, and he also used to blackmail her through messages exchanged between them on the WhatsApp application by sending her photos 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 by attributing matters outrageous of honor and consideration, and misdemeanors of insulting using information technology and fraud to seize the money of others.    

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