Yemeni cook faces trial in UAE for threatening Pinay

A Yemeni cook faces trial before a United Arab Emirates court for allegedly threatening to kill a Filipina and her daughter earlier this year.

The Yemeni was part of a gang that tried to steal the car the Filipina has been selling on behalf of her Iranian employer, Khaleej Times reported.

He was charged in the Court of First Instance with forcible theft and making criminal threats.

Court records showed the Yemeni, 43, and his colleagues learned of the car being put up for sale via an ad, and went to the owner’s house in Jumeirah.

There, the Filipina met them and told them her employer entrusted her to sell the vehicle worth Dh420,000 (P5.151 million).

But while the Yemeni was driving the car on the way to the Roads and Transport Authority's (RTA) Licensing Department, the suspects threatened to kill the Filipina and her baby daughter if she did not have the car's ownership transferred to one of them, an Omani, without settling the price.

Investigation showed the gang threatened to slash the Filipina's throat and kill her baby if she informed the RTA staff they did not pay for the car.

The suspects then left with the car after giving the Filipina a "dud" check, the report said.

Pinay's story

According to the 39-year-old Filipina, a man phoned her on January 5 then showed up at her employer’s place with three men. She said the man "was talkative in a friendly manner."

After agreeing on Dh420,000 as a price for the car, the Filipina asked her employer if the men could drive the car to the Licensing Department and he agreed.

But after exiting the area and before reaching the RTA’s department in Al Barsha, the defendants threatened to hurt her and her child if she did not obey them.

Meanwhile, a police corporal told the prosecutor they learned the suspects drove a rental car from Abu Dhabi on the day of the incident.

“We knew from the rental office that two men rented the car. One of them deposited his passport. We apprehended (the cook) when he went to the office to collect it,” he said.

When interrogated, the cook denied any wrongdoing and claimed he was paid Dh500 to have his name included in the contract.

But the Filipina identified him and told investigators he was one of the men who went to her employer’s house and threatened her later. —Joel Locsin/KBK, GMA News

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