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Not long after arriving, she asked her mother to transfer US$10,000 to her.
The woman returned to Singapore in late November 2021. Achraf was arrested in Singapore in November 2023 for an unrelated offence, which is pending against him.
He is represented by Joel Quek and Samuel Teo from WongPartnership.
On Friday afternoon, Achraf responded to questions from Teo in court.
Teo took him through a series of messages the woman sent him in March and April 2022.
In the messages, the woman told Achraf that he had given her “so many problems in Dubai”, and that “you made me sleep with people for money”.
Asked what he understood by these messages, Achraf said he “didn’t understand anything”. He added: “I really didn’t know what she was doing in Dubai.” He also told the court that he did not see the woman from May to September 2021.
Teo showed Achraf messages from the woman, including: “If you love me, you won’t ask me to sleep with others for money and put [me] into s*** in Dubai.”
Another message read: “When you ask me to sleep with other men, you call this love?”
In response, Achraf said he did not understand anything that the woman was saying, but he was “desperate” to get help from her to pay a law firm.
He said she had given him a debit card, but would block it if he did not answer her calls. He added that he would answer her but just hang up.
In another message, the woman wrote: “You choose to abandon me when I was in Dubai. I was in deep s***, you just torture me. I will not forgive you. Whatever you did was a sin.”
Achraf said the woman was “very aggressive” and “really didn’t care about the rules in Dubai since Day 1”, referring to sharia law.
He said that when they were together in May 2021, he took care of her and “I just did it out of my heart”.
Achraf also said that he had told the woman that “maybe we can get married one day, but I want to settle down in Qatar”.
He said: “I like Qatar because of the tradition and it’s a very quiet country.”
The defence asked Achraf why he did not clarify with the woman in response to her messages and tell her that he did not know what she meant.
“Basically I just wanted to get help from her and I didn’t have any interest in what she was talking,” he said.
Not long after arriving, she asked her mother to transfer US$10,000 to her.
The woman returned to Singapore in late November 2021. Achraf was arrested in Singapore in November 2023 for an unrelated offence, which is pending against him.
He is represented by Joel Quek and Samuel Teo from WongPartnership.
On Friday afternoon, Achraf responded to questions from Teo in court.
Teo took him through a series of messages the woman sent him in March and April 2022.
In the messages, the woman told Achraf that he had given her “so many problems in Dubai”, and that “you made me sleep with people for money”.
Asked what he understood by these messages, Achraf said he “didn’t understand anything”. He added: “I really didn’t know what she was doing in Dubai.” He also told the court that he did not see the woman from May to September 2021.
Teo showed Achraf messages from the woman, including: “If you love me, you won’t ask me to sleep with others for money and put [me] into s*** in Dubai.”
Another message read: “When you ask me to sleep with other men, you call this love?”
In response, Achraf said he did not understand anything that the woman was saying, but he was “desperate” to get help from her to pay a law firm.
He said she had given him a debit card, but would block it if he did not answer her calls. He added that he would answer her but just hang up.
In another message, the woman wrote: “You choose to abandon me when I was in Dubai. I was in deep s***, you just torture me. I will not forgive you. Whatever you did was a sin.”
Achraf said the woman was “very aggressive” and “really didn’t care about the rules in Dubai since Day 1”, referring to sharia law.
He said that when they were together in May 2021, he took care of her and “I just did it out of my heart”.
Achraf also said that he had told the woman that “maybe we can get married one day, but I want to settle down in Qatar”.
He said: “I like Qatar because of the tradition and it’s a very quiet country.”
The defence asked Achraf why he did not clarify with the woman in response to her messages and tell her that he did not know what she meant.
“Basically I just wanted to get help from her and I didn’t have any interest in what she was talking,” he said.
