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Man ‘blackmails’ ex-boss’ wife with video
Two Emirati brothers who work in the armed forces and an Egyptian man stood trial on Thursday in the Court of First Instance on Thursday on the charge of blackmailing an Emirati housewife.
One of the brothers, identified as 30-year-old S.A., allegedly blackmailed the woman, who is the wife of his ex-employer, saying he would circulate private video footage of her in her villa in Al Khawaneej if she did not pay $1 million.
S.A.’s 23-year-old brother, N.A., and the 29-year-old Egyptian, M.M, who works in a business, are accused of helping and abetting S.A. in trespassing into the woman’s villa and intruding into her private life. The sequence of incidents in the case happened in November last year.
A Lebanese woman, 36, who works as an assistant manager for the complainant’s husband, said S.A. called her on the phone and told her that he had a private videotape showing the wife of her employer in her villa.
She knew earlier from her boss’s wife that S.A. had paid her a visit at her villa accompanied by a veiled woman whom he claimed to be his mother. He asked for financial assistance citing problems but the housewife turned him down.
The Lebanese woman said during investigation that she later received an international phone call from S.A.’s friend who claimed to have private photos and video footage of the wife in her bedroom and other material of her in her house.
The Lebanese was told to inform her employer that they were asking for $1 million to hand in the material. She met S.A. at the lobby of a bank in Al Qusais where she worked and she learnt that their claims were true when she had a look in the flash memory she was given. The delivery of the flash memory was recorded by the bank’s CCTV camera.
S.A. admitted during interrogation that he had asked for the help of the two other defendants to intrude into the property of the housewife and recorded private video of her with a video camera to use the footage later in blackmailing her husband. He claimed he used to work for the woman’s husband at his private company and decided to blackmail him after his ex-employer turned down his request to help him.
The police tracked the defendants down through the mobile number S.A. had given to the security guard of the villa on the day he visited it.
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