A 34-year-old Saudi who blackmailed 13 women has been sentenced to 2,000 lashes and eight years in jail. A fine of SR 300,000 has also been slapped on him by Jeddah’s district court.
The blackmailer used personal pictures of the victims to get paid SR 1,500 monthly from each one. If the victims did not comply, he threatened them he would publish the photos.
The judge said it was the defendant’s wife who reported him to the cops after she found that he took her colleagues’ numbers from her cell phone and saved them under company names on his cell phone.
The defendant managed to involve his victims in affairs with him until he took private pictures of them to blackmail them.
8 years, 2,000 lashes, fine for blackmailer
