29 January 2008

Russian woman locked up in villa

Dubai Police has referred an Iranian expatriate, who was arrested for alleged illegal confinement of a Russian woman in a villa in Jebel Ali, to the Public Prosecution.
On Saturday, the operations room of the police received an SMS from a woman complaining that she had been locked up in a room inside a villa for over two days.
The police rushed to the site and broke into the one bedroom apartment on the ground floor and found the woman locked up in a dark storeroom of 2x1 metres.
The police rushed the woman to the hospital after she complained of fatigue.

The 29-year-old woman, identified only as N., told the police that she was brought to the UAE on a visit visa three months ago by the 36-year-old Iranian, A.M., who was the director and partner of a private company in Dubai.

She said the man had promised to employ her in his company but did not do so.

On January 24, he returned from a business trip abroad. On the day, they fought with each other after he allegedly tried to have sex with her, which she refused. He slapped her and locked her up in the room in the night where she remained till Saturday without food or water.

She told the police that the mobile phone she used to send the SMS belonged to her friend but she had it with her.

During interrogation, the Iranian who lives on the upper floor of the same villa, denied the accusation saying that the woman knew several men and that she might have been locked up by any one of them. Source

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