DUBAI // An engineer sent emails to a woman threatening to tell people she was his mistress if she didn’t send him money, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.
Egyptian M D, 39, faces charges of issuing threats through email and stealing a mobile phone from his workplace.
The incidents happened between February and April this year. M D denied both charges in court.
Records show that Filipina E E, 29, lost her mobile phone from her desk at work and reported the matter to police.
“A few days later the defendant called me and said that he could help me find my phone but asked me for my passcode, I didn’t suspect him so I gave him the code. Two weeks later he sent me an email saying he was able to log into all my accounts and that he can cause me harm,” said E E in records.
When M D was arrested and questioned, he told police that he only took the phone and wrote to E E so she could repay him money she had taken from him as a loan.
The next hearing will be on September 6.
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