Arab charged with swindling money

Ihab Atta, Emaduddin Khalil, Staff Reporters

The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal on Sunday heard a case in which an Arab was charged with fraud after swindling money from a person in return for bringing tickets at reduced prices.

According to the official records, the defendant, who wore a pilot suit of an airline, gave the victim a wrong impression that he had airway tickets at reduced prices to a number of world destinations. He argued the victim into buying the ticket and received money in return.

When asked by the court, the defendant denied that he was working for an airline but for a travel agency. He said he knew the victim for 5 years and took Dhs38,000 from him in return for 10 airway tickets at reduced prices. He added that he was arrested before the date the airway tickets were supposed to be issued.

The court decided to adjourn the hearing till September 25 for a defence memo to be presented.

In another event, The Criminal Court in Dubai on Sunday began the first hearing of a case in which a 32-year-old Asian servant was accused of threatening a 53-year-old Arab woman to publish a video featuring private pictures of her sons on YouTube in an attempt to avenge and annoy her. This was because he got infuriated due to working for her, the Court heard.

During the investigations, the plaintiff stated that she had received a number of videos from the accused via “WhatsApp”, in which her sons and their wives appeared in private positions. Those videos were followed by text messages in English, stating that he would post those videos on social media such as YouTube, Instagram and Twitter, and If she did not contact him, the woman added.

Accordingly, she told her husband, who called the police, after he had seen the messages and videos.

The defendant confessed to threatening his employer after he had got those pictures while working for her. He noted that his employer used to send him to fetch some things from her sons’ home. In one time, he brought a mobile phone, which he opened and saw the sons’ private pictures with their wives. He filmed those pictures with his mobile phone, and used them to blackmail his employer threatening to publish them on social media.