Dancer blackmails man to pay Dh140k

dubai — A woman has been charged at the Dubai Court of First Instance after she allegedly threatened an Emirati man and blackmailed him for breaking up with her. She is also charged with blasphemy.

The court heard how the 35-year-old Moroccan woman — a night club dancer — blackmailed to defame the complainant, also 35, with intimate photos and videos of them together on vacation in Spain.

She wanted him to get back to her or pay her Dh140,000 and a monthly amount of Dh4,500.

The accused almost managed to make the victim yield to her demands after she threatened to disgrace him in front of his family members. But he eventually filed a complaint against her at the Dubai Police cybercrime department. Prosecutors referred her to trial and requested she received a very strict legal penalty.

The complainant said he had met the defendant about two years before the complaint. “We got close and I would usually help her financially as she had two children from an ex-husband. I told her about my wife and my family members’ names. I proposed to her and she accepted but I told her she had to quit her job as a dancer at a night club and stop drinking alcohol. However, after she failed to do so, I broke up with her in May last year.

“She wanted me to get back to her or pay her Dh140,000 and a monthly amount of Dh4,500,” he recalled.

“I knew how serious she was when she sent me two video clips she had taken as we kissed each other in Spain. She also secretly copied all my contact numbers from my phone and later contacted my wife,” he told the prosecutor.

The complainant turned to Dubai Police to help him as he became worried about his ill mother’s health if she learned about the incident.

He lodged a complaint at Al Qusais police station. A ruling will be pronounced on March 24.