Dubai: A supervisor has been accused of threatening to disgrace his best friend’s wife by uploading a tape of them having sex on the internet, over a Dh30,000 loan.

The 35-year-old Indian supervisor was said to have been having a sexual relationship with the wife of his best friend, who is also his countryman, when he recorded a number of sex tapes for them together between 2013 and 2014.

The defendant threatened to shame the housewife if she did not repay the loan.

Prosecutors accused the suspect of threatening to disgrace the woman over the phone by publishing their sex tapes on the internet if she did not return his money.

The defendant entered a not guilty plea and strongly refuted the accusations when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday.

The suspect was quoted as telling prosecutors that he had sex three or four times with his best friend’s wife in India after they fell in love.

“I had lent her money and when she refused to repay me … I threatened her that I would be publishing tapes of us having sex on the internet if she didn’t give me back my money. I had recorded the videos of us having sex earlier. When I called her, I told her that I would publish four sex tapes on the internet if she didn’t repay me,” the supervisor was cited as telling prosecutors.

A police lieutenant at the cybercrime section testified to prosecutors that the defendant was arrested shortly after the husband reported the matter to the police.

“The husband complained that the defendant had been blackmailing him sexually. The husband claimed to us that the suspect became his best friend after he involved him in resolving their marital problems. The claimant alleged that his wife confided to him that she had been having an affair with the suspect before the latter started blackmailing her against some money she took from him. The husband further alleged that his wife told him that they had sex in India and in Dubai over a period of two years. After his arrest, the suspect admitted that he had sex with the housewife… he also admitted that he threatened to publish their sex tapes,” claimed the lieutenant.

Prosecution records said more than 150 photos of women were found on the defendant’s two mobile phones that were confiscated.

Presiding Judge Fahd Al Shamsi adjourned the case until March 31.