Dubai: A woman, who claimed a man raped her in her home, has been accused of prostitution after CCTV cameras showed her letting two men into her flat.

The 40-year-old Egyptian woman was said to have picked up two men from the street and then taken them up to her flat after she convinced them to have paid sex with her in December. Each man paid her Dh150.

Despite having reported to the police that she had been raped, further investigations revealed that she was paid to have sex with the Saudi men.

Prosecutors accused the defendant of having sex with strangers for money.

The Egyptian woman pleaded not guilty when she appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.

“I did not do so,” she was heard telling presiding judge Urfan Omar in court.

A police lieutenant testified to prosecutors that the defendant initially reported to Dubai Police’s Operation Room that an African man broke into her flat and raped her.

“We headed to the alleged crime scene for inspection. On checking the broken door, the woman alleged that the African broke into her flat the door’s lock was apparently broken from inside. We suspected the woman’s claims about her being raped. On examining the surveillance cameras in the building, the recordings clearly showed her walking two men into her flat with a 30-minute time difference between each man. Upon confronting her with the footage, the woman initially claimed that the first man was asking her about a person who lived in the building.

“But later she willingly admitted that she went down and stopped a Saudi man and convinced him to have paid sex with her in her flat. The man paid her Dh150. She also admitted that when she finished with the first man, she went out into the street and picked up another man. She said that she convinced the second man to go up to her place and have sex with her for Dh150. The woman alleged that she could not continue having sex with the second man because she started menstruating. The Egyptian gave her statement verbally … however when we asked her to sign on the written confession, she refused. She also retracted her statement,” the lieutenant claimed.

A policewoman, who attended the interrogation, claimed to prosecutors: “I heard her confessing that she had paid sex with the two men.”

The Egyptian woman was cited admitting to prosecutors that she picked up a man at 10.30pm from the street and had paid sex with him in her flat. She could not do the same with the other because she was menstruating.

Presiding judge Omar adjourned the case until the court hears prosecution witnesses on April 22.