Lawyer says woman is blackmailing her client

Alawyer has accused a woman of blackmailing her client and trying to extort money from him but when he refused, she accused him malevolently of groping her.

The 27-year-old Egyptian vet pleaded not guilty before the Dubai Court of First Instance and firmly refuted the 21-year-old Iranian woman’s claims that he molested her in October.

“The suspect had nothing to do with this unfounded case that the woman lodged out of malice. Her statement was full of contradictions. Her main aim was to blackmail my client and extort money from … when he refused to pay her money, she lodged this false and baseless case,” the vet’s lawyer, Salwa Al Hariri, told the court.

The Iranian woman claimed that she had just left a friend’s place when she came across the suspect and his friend in the lift of a building at Al Maktoum Street in October. Once she finished phone call she was having, the suspect asked her if she was Egyptian, and she replied that she was Iranian, according to records.

The vet slapped her face and groped her after she refused to give him her phone number, she alleged. She claimed that the suspect continued groping her for nearly five minutes until the lift stopped and the friend went out.

“She is the one who called my client. She had aimed to trap him because he is a reputable vet and thought she could blackmail him and become rich,” contended lawyer Al Hariri.