DUBAI // A businessman claiming to be a former member of the Mafia in America threatened to kill his former business partner and her children.
Jordanian M B, 47, was on Tuesday found guilty at Dubai Criminal Court of issuing death threats to 46-year-old Syrian E A on May 17 last year. He was sentenced to three months in jail.
The court was told that he had threatened to kill E A and her children if she did not give him a share of her firm’s profits.
The woman said she had been in business with M B and a third man but, following a dispute, their partnership ended.
“In February last year he tried to assault me in the premises of the company where we were once partners. I reported him to police but then dropped the charges,” she said.
In May last year M B, who in court last October denied issuing threats to kill, contacted her and asked to meet in a cafe to patch up their differences and, when they met, he asked for his share of profits.
“I told him it couldn’t be done,” EA said.
“He told me he had nothing to lose, he had said his goodbyes to his family and was ready for me and my children.”
E A added that he told her he was a Mafia man in the US and lifted up his trouser leg to show her a bullet wound.
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