Iraqi authorities on Monday announced the arrest of a man who had threatened his ex-wife to publish an intimate photo of her if she refused to pay him money.
In a statement released by the Ministry of the Interior – Baghdad Anti-Crime Directorate it is stated that the police have managed to “arrest a suspect for electronically blackmailing his ex-wife and threatening to post his private photos on social media unless he pays a sum of money in Baghdad, “according to the website.Alsumaria newsNews.
The statement indicated that the move by the competent authorities occurred after “the complainant sought help from our detachments for being subjected to electronic blackmail by her ex-wife”.
He continued: “A follow-up working group was immediately formed and after the investigation and information gathering, and in coordination with the complainant, a close ambush was organized and the offending defendant was arrested”.
And in a note it is specified that “the accused, when questioned, frankly confessed to having sent the photos of his ex-wife and having blackmailed her”.
The management confirmed in its statement that “the investigative papers were presented to the investigating judge and they decided to arrest him under article 430 of the penal code to receive his just punishment”.
Iraq has recently been suffering from a worsening of the phenomenon of electronic extortion. The Community Police Directorate of the Interior Ministry has revealed 1950 cases of extortion in the past year, most of whose victims were women, including teenage girls and children under the age of fourteen.
According to the latest statistics revealed by the global “We Or Social” center, the number of users of social networking sites in Iraq in 2021 exceeded 28 million people, an increase of 3 million and 350 thousand users compared to the previous year.
