3 years in prison for a gang that lured him

A European massage session costs 50 thousand dirhams

The Dubai Court of Appeal upheld a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 50,000 dirhams against a gang consisting of six Africans (two men and four women) who, along with others, lured a European fugitive, through a page bearing the name and image of a "sexy" European girl, on a social network.

One of the accused deceived him into giving him a massage, and when he went to the address that I specified for him, he was surprised by another woman, and as soon as he entered, the gang members surrounded him and took from him 1000 dirhams in cash that he had in his possession, and assaulted him and threatened to kill him, and forced him to disclose secret data to his bank cards and seized from them 49 thousand dirhams The accused were referred to the Public Prosecution and from there to the Criminal Court, which convicted them, and then the Court of Appeal.

The victim said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution: “He went to a building in the Al-Rafa area in Dubai, to meet with a woman he met through (Facebook) to obtain a massage service, but when he arrived at the agreed address with her, and by entering the apartment, he was surprised by an African woman, and by asking her About the owner of the picture with whom he agreed, she did not answer him.

He stated that "about eight women gathered around him, including the four accused, and they searched, took off his clothes and beat him with their hands and shoes, and asked to provide him with the password for his bank card, but he refused, and then two men of the same nationality attended, assaulted him with sticks and threatened to kill him, then one of The accused wrapped his head in a plastic bag and suffocated him, until he almost breathed, so he surrendered and disclosed the secret number of his credit card, so one of them went to the ATM and withdrew 49,000 dirhams, and they shared the amount among themselves and then let him go, pointing out that he informed the police who arrested on the accused.

For his part, a witness from Dubai Police said: “As soon as the report was received, a research team was formed and three of the accused were identified, through surveillance cameras, and they were arrested within five days of the communication, and the victim identified them, then the rest of the accused were tracked down and arrested later during Two days later, they all confessed to their crime.

The bodies of the Criminal and Appeal Courts confirmed their confidence in the truthfulness of the victim’s statement, the testimony of Dubai Police personnel who witnessed the incident and arrested the accused, as well as the evidence that included traces of fingerprints.

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