The police in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, have arrested three Nigerian women who attacked an Iraqi man, and robbed him of Dh57,000 (N5,523,973).
The 45-year-old Iraqi man was said to have arrived in Dubai in January and met a woman, whom he thought was a Swedish student, through a dating app, according to Gulf News.
Explaining the incident, the man said he and the woman agreed to meet at her apartment in Al Quoz, western Dubai, after they spoke on the phone.
But on arrival at the apartment, he was confronted by a group of women, aged 30, 33 and 34, who slapped him and asked for money.
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According to him, he gave them Dh1,600 to let him go, but they searched his pockets and found Dh55,975.
“The apartment door opened and five African women dragged me inside and physically abused me,” the man was quoted as saying.
“They were so happy when they found this amount of cash that they stopped searching me. I was terrified that they would kill me so I pretended to have breathing problems so they would let me go.”
The women were said to have allowed him leave after which he reportedly alerted the building’s security and kept waiting in front of the apartment.
“The women escaped and we chased them on foot. We arrested three of them and the victim identified them before taking them to Bur Dubai police station,” a police officer was quoted as saying.
The victim was also charged with soliciting prostitution by the Dubai public prosecution, which cost him Dh5,000 in fine, and deportation.