Money Extortion, Man Pleads not Guilty

The 32-year-old bidoon claimed he saw the couple — a Kuwaiti student, 21, and his Bahraini girlfriend, 20 — indulging in an inappropriate act in their car on October 5 last year.

The Kuwaiti student told the interrogators that on the day of the incident, he was sitting in his car with his girlfriend in Umm Suqeim area.

“Suddenly, the accused knocked on the window. He said he was as a CID officer and asked for our IDs.

“He claimed he had taken our pictures on his mobile phone and said that what we were doing was wrong,” the student said.

The accused told them that he was accompanied by his colleague in the same shift.

“He asked me to head towards the Criminal Investigation Department office.

“Then, he started negotiating with us. He said he was willing to let us go in return for anything between Dh5,000 and Dh10,000.

The student tried to withdraw money using his ATM card but the card did not work.

The Bahraini woman then called her friend to bring money. By the time, a police officer intervened and confronted the bidoon who tried to escape in vain.

The defendant admitted to the police that he did not have an identity card and that he had infiltrated into the country.

It was found out that his name was already in the police records in cases of theft and impersonation as a public officer.

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