Permanent Military Tribunal head Brig. Gen. Pierre Saab ruled  that a former Lebanese Army soldier who blackmailed a woman would be detained for 35 days, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The suspect, identified as M.N., reportedly blackmailed his victim by threatening to send pictures of her without a veil and dressed in “beachwear” to her brothers, unless she paid him $1000 and gave him gold coins.

The suspect was questioned Thursday by Judge Hani Helmi al-Hajjar – a representative of the public prosecutor – and the defendant’s legal representative.

The court sentenced the suspect to time served, due to the time he had spent detained following his arrest two years ago, NNA reported.