Man used naked video to force woman to marry him

Dubai

A manager has been accused of threatening to dishonour a woman by sending on her WhatsApp her naked video, which he obtained from her ex-husband, in an attempt to force her to marry him.

The 39-year-old Egyptian manager, H.Z., was said to have obtained the video of his compatriot naked in the shower from her ex-husband.

Then he threatened to shame the woman, who was his business partner, in front of her 12-year-old daughter by saying that he would send her the video if she did not marry him in May.

Prosecutors accused H.Z. of threatening to shame the 34-year-old woman.

The defendant firmly refuted his accusation, entering a not guilty plea before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.

“I did not do that for sure,” the suspect told presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi.

His lawyer asked the court to hear the prosecution witnesses.

Meanwhile, the woman’s lawyer lodged a civil lawsuit in which she is seeking Dh21,000 in temporary compensation against emotional and moral damages.

According to the accusation sheet, prosecutors said H.Z. forwarded the naked video to the woman on WhatsApp and clubbed to it a message saying “I can come out with the dirtiest thing I could … I am not pleased till now and don’t hurt yourself”.

The Egyptian woman claimed to prosecutors that the incident happened following a business agreement that she had with the defendant.

“I took from H.Z. clothes and shoes to sell them in Egypt. After I sold the items, I gave him the revenue plus $20,000 [around Dh73,600] profit. We started a friendship that was expected to end up in marriage and he proposed to me. Instead he said he wanted to have an on-paper marriage [a marriage on paper only] but I refused. Thereafter, he started threatening me, saying that he would kidnap my children [from previous marriage] and kill them. He also had against me a promissory note that I had signed to him as part of our business together. He also claimed to me that he had in his possession a copy of a video of mine while taking shower … I had recorded that video before my divorce and sent it to my ex-husband. My ex-husband is the suspect’s friend and he forwarded the video to H.Z. after we had a fight and divorced. The suspect threatened to send the video to my daughter to coerce me to marry him,” she testified to prosecutors.

The suspect was quoted as admitting to prosecutors that he just forwarded the video to his compatriot to prove to her that he had the video. He was cited as saying that he did not intend to hurt her.

Presiding judge Al Shamsi adjourned the case until December 6.