Dubai: A policeman has been accused of accepting a bribe in the form of sexual favours in return for not arresting an illegal maid.
The 38-year-old policeman was said to have spotted the 33-year-old Filipina maid, who was waiting at a bus stop with her two countrywomen, at Dubai Academic City in May.
After discovering that the three Filipinas had been reported absconding from their employers, the 33-year-old woman offered to have sex with the policeman in return for not arresting her.
Prosecutors accused the policeman of accepting a bribe in the form of sexual intercourse. The maid was charged with offering a bribe to the policeman.
The man did not enter a plea when he showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance. The Filipina was not brought from her detention centre.
A lieutenant from Dubai Police’s anti-corruption department testified to prosecutors that they had received a number of complaints against the suspected policeman.
“We were informed a number of times that the suspect had been requesting sexual bribes from women staying or working illegally in Dubai. The information that we received mentioned that the suspect used to ask illegal residents [women] for their identification cards and contact numbers. Then later he would attempt to befriend those illegal residents and request to have sex with them or any form of sexual service against not turning them in. We placed him under observation.
“Our surveillance teams noticed that he picked up a woman and drove into the parking lot of a college at Academic City. The surveillance team members did not go close to his car as they did not want to be noticed. When he drove his car out of the college, we stopped him. At first he claimed that he was alone in the car. He was confused and quivered when I introduced myself and asked him if he had company with him. He denied this several times until he finally admitted that he had a woman with him… the two suspects confessed that they had consensual sex in the parking,” the lieutenant claimed to prosecutors.
Records said when the college’s security guard was asked why he allowed the suspected policeman to drive his car into the college’s premises; he alleged that the head of security ordered him to do so.
The lieutenant cited the suspected policeman admitting that he borrowed his friend’s car because it had tinted windows.
The 38-year-old defendant was cited admitting during prosecution questioning that he spotted the 33-year-old maid and two others waiting for a bus.
He claimed that he suspected them and, when he asked them for identification cards, he discovered that their employers had reported them as absconders.
“She offered to give me money and to have sex with me in return for not detaining her. I took her to the college’s parking and had sex with her,” the suspect was quoted as saying.
The maid also confessed to the investigating prosecutor that she had consensual sex with the policeman in order to avoid arrest.
Records showed that the suspected couple is also standing trial before the Dubai Misdemeanours Court for having consensual sex.
The trial continues.
