UAE- Driver films couple having sex, threatens to post clip
Date
5/30/2016 5:03:52 PM
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A limousine driver has confessed in court to having tried to blackmail a newlywed couple with a compromising footage he had secretly taken of them.
The 28-year-old Pakistani driver was taking the Indian couple from a hotel to a mall when he secretly filmed them having sex in his limo. He filmed the footage from a camera installed in the backseat of his workplace luxury car. He later sent a message to the husband on WhatsApp to try to extort Dh2,000 from him. He sent the clip he had of the couple to the husband and threatened to circulate it on social media sites, the court was told. He pleaded guilty to charges of blackmail and breaching others' privacy by using technology. The case, as told by the defendant himself during the course of investigation, happened on January 12. "After 4pm, I picked them up from their hotel in Al Rafaa and at a traffic junction I noticed a strange movement in the car. I turned the camera on and saw they were having sex. I filmed the footage of the camera monitor screen with my mobile phone." He dropped them at their destination and later in the evening on the same day he sent the husband the threat message. The accused was arrested by police officers when he went to meet the husband two days later at the hotel to collect the money. The husband's friend, an Indian businessman, 31, said the complainant was in Dubai for a four-day honeymoon break when the incident happened. "As I learnt from my friend, the car was tinted. But later my friend got a call from the driver asking him for a sum of money or to give him his wife or he would circulate the clip online." They went together to the police station and lodged a complaint against the driver. "I followed up on the complaint later and met the accused at the hotel as my friend left the country then."
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