Another wealthy foreign businessman has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a maid in a New York hotel - just two weeks after IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was held. Egyptian Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, 74, is accused of assaulting the woman in The Pierre hotel in the upmarket Upper East Side of Manhattan, where apartments are worth as much as $20million.
It is thought the woman was asked to deliver tissues to room 1027 on Sunday evening when Omar struck.
The former head of the Bank of Alexandria is said to have asked the 44-year-old maid to put the tissues on the table as he locked the door to the 10th-floor $900-a-night suite on 61st Street, off Fifth Avenue.
He then groped her breasts and ground his body against hers, according to the New York Daily News.
'When she came to his room, he got carried away. He started grabbing at her. He wouldn't let her go,' a hotel bellman said.
The maid told him 'I'm not up here for that' but Omar persisted.
Dressed only in his pyjamas, he asked the maid for her number to which she replied with a fake one, before letting her go.
The attack was reported to police yesterday morning after the hotel management allegedly put off dealing with the maid's initial complaint.
She is said to have complained to the manager of the hotel immediately after the alleged attack. Read More
