A businessman threatened to tell his former lover's husband of their affair unless she paid him Dh310,000, Dubai Criminal Court heard.
The judges were told the man sent an email to the woman demanding the sum he claimed he spent on her during their relationship.
Otherwise he would inform her husband and family of the affair, the court heard.
In September 2019, the businessman, 49, posted a picture on Facebook of the woman in a car he claimed he had bought her.
He wrote several insults under the image, it is alleged.
The woman, 48, told officers that she had been involved in a romantic relationship with the defendant for nearly four years.
She told him she wanted to end the affair, to which he reacted badly.
“He threatened to expose our relationship through an email he sent me,” she told the court.
She said the man later sent a series of WhatsApp messages to her husband, that included indecent pictures, and threatened to send the photos to all of her family and friends.
"He was [out to] destroy my life because I broke up with him," the woman said.
At Al Barsha police station, the man admitted sending threatening emails and messages and posting the picture on his Facebook account, the court heard.
He was charged with issuing threats and insults, which he denied in court.
The next hearing is scheduled for June 8.
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Milestones on the road to union
1970
October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar.
December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.
1971
March 1: Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.
July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.
July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.
August 6: The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.
August 15: Bahrain becomes independent.
September 3: Qatar becomes independent.
November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.
November 29: At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.
November 30: Despite a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa.
November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties
December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
December 6: Arab League formally admits the UAE. The first British Ambassador presents his credentials to Sheikh Zayed.
December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.
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