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Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a man to three months in jail to be followed by deportation and ordered his mobile phone to be confiscated on extortion charges.

In October last year, an Arab woman received messages from the Facebook account of an unknown person asking her to pay him $10,000 in exchange for not posting her photos that he obtained from a mobile he found.

According to the victim’s statement, she received some photos and video clips showing her in indecent clothes.She tried to talk to him, but he continued to blackmail her through more messages, she said.

He sent a number of photos and video clips to some of her friends and family members through Facebook, she added, noting that after she received her photos through WhatsApp, she discovered that the unknown account holder was her ex-husband, who she broke up with in 2018 and who took her mobile phone following their divorce.

She told the police about the incident accordingly. According to the official documents, a team of detectives summoned the suspect who denied he had anything to do with what happened.

Further investigations and forensic lab report, however, proved that he had blackmailed the victim through a fake account and mobile numbers that belonged to him. At this point, the defendant had to confess that he was the man who blackmailed the victim.