Dubai: A salesman has been accused of sending text messages to his ex-fiancée threatening to kill her and to publish their sex tape on social media if she married someone else.

The 32-year-old Lebanese salesman, A.G., was said to have threatened to kill the 27-year-old Iranian woman and to publish a video that he secretly recorded of them together on Facebook and WhatsApp in May 2014.

Prosecutors accused A.G. of threatening the Iranian woman [who was his co-worker] verbally and in writing.

Records said the couple was being prosecuted in Sharjah for having consensual sex due to jurisdictional purposes.

The Lebanese defendant failed to appear before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday where he was scheduled to be prosecuted.

Presiding judge Mohammad Jamal will hand out a ruling in absentia against A.G.

According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the suspect send SMSs to the woman in which he threatened to kill her and publish the video if she married someone else or if he dated someone else.

The Iranian testified to prosecutors that when the Lebanese was her manager at work they became close and were engaged for a period of time.

“Once I discovered that he had been lying to me and that he is married and has two children, I decided to break up our engagement. Since then, he threatened to publish my private photos and a video that he claimed to have recorded of us together and threatened to kill me if I didn’t marry him. We met at work and we were friends and then lovers and got engaged. We went to parties and restaurants. I also lent him Dh30,000 to pay for his father’s operation when the latter fell ill in Lebanon. We had a fight and I decided to leave him once I realised that he had been lying to me… however he kepchasing me. He called me persistently and constantly sent me annoying SMSs. Surprisingly, he threatened me in an SMS that he would kill me if I didn’t marry him. He also threatened to upload my photos on WhatsApp. When I complained to the police, I informed them that I had not done anything to provoke him and I didn’t know why he had threatened me,” she claimed to prosecutors.

A police lieutenant claimed to prosecutors that when the Iranian visited the police station she asked them to summon the defendant first.

“She asked the police to make him sign an undertaking to stop stalking her and to delete the alleged video. The woman alleged in her statement that A.G. had threatened to show the video to her family. During questioning, the suspect claimed that they were engaged and then broke up after they had a fight. He also claimed that the video showed them having sex at her flat in Sharjah and then he deleted it… he recoded the video without her knowledge,” testified the lieutenant.

Prosecution records cited the couple admitting that they had consensual sex.