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14-man online blackmail ring targeted women in UAE, Saudi: Busted in Palestine

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Palestinian authorities arrested 14 men involved in extorting money from women in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf country by threatening to publish their pictures on social media networks, a Saudi newspaper reported on Monday.

Saudi authorities contacted police in the occupied West Bank and informed them about the activities of the ring after a Saudi girl reported she was being blackmailed.

The Saudi Arabic language daily ‘Okaz’ said the 19-year-old girl told local police that a man on social media fooled her when he made her send her photograph, which he threatened to publish unless she sent money to him in Palestine.

It said Saudi authorities contacted the Palestinian ambassador in the Gulf Kingdom, who informed the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank about the case.

“Palestinian authorities raided some houses and arrested all the suspects. Officials there said the suspects, if convicted, will be jailed for at least one year,” it said, without mentioning how many women had been extorted by the ring.

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