{"id":527150,"date":"2026-07-15T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527150\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:41:08","slug":"lee-andrews-arrested-in-dubai-again-for-unpaid-debts-faces-prison-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527150\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Andrews arrested in Dubai again for unpaid debts, faces prison time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNow he\u2019s shaven-headed again and he looked really annoyed about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe had a face like thunder when he arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">However, Andrews has reportedly told fellow inmates he has already raised the money he needs to post bail and is expected to be freed by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">The source said: \u201cLee was quick to mouth off about getting released the last time he was in and today has been no different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe said the money to secure his release is sorted and that he\u2019s now just waiting for the system over here to process that and let him out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLee\u2018s boasts make him unpopular with the other blokes in here because most people are serving lengthy stretches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe only laugh they\u2019ve got is about his hair because he\u2019s such a vain b****** and they know he\u2019ll hate having it all cut off again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">Among his alleged unpaid debts, Andrews is said to owe Rotana Star Rent-a-car about \u00a354,000 ($124,500) after failing to pay for a car he rented, while another case dates back to January last year, with him reportedly owing a legal firm in the UAE \u00a315,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">In May, Price claimed Andrews had gone missing, only for it to later emerge he was in jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">It was reported that Andrews was being held in prison on fraud charges, but he later claimed he had been detained for \u201cespionage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">After his release, he said on social media: \u201cHi everyone, this is Lee. I\u2019ve been missing now for several weeks and I can now tell you I am now safe and healthy and with my wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI was taken by the Qatar border by the men, at gunpoint and was captured by men with assault rifles, they did slap me round a little bit, little s***s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFrom there I was taken to a black site where I had no use of my phone and from what I know, it was an extended arm of the National Guard and that is all I can reveal at the moment. I have signed disclaimers with state security and from there I was put into the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt no point have I faced anything to do with fraud allegations or criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo I\u2019m sending these messages out to my loved ones and my beautiful wife, who without her help involving all the UK authorities, I don\u2019t think I would have got out of that situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBecause of the tensions and things happening in the region, and me being so close to the border, this is why I was suspected of espionage and held in a state security building without the use of a telephone or any rights to a shower, contact or to speak to any of my family including the embassy or my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNow he\u2019s shaven-headed again and he looked really annoyed about it. \u201cHe had a face like thunder when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6030,62032,11924,1863,12625,4225,156,6119,2082,2219,78,1334,6657,111,139,69,8442,2044,2743],"class_list":["post-527150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-again","tag-andrews","tag-arrested","tag-back","tag-debts","tag-dubai","tag-entertainment","tag-faces","tag-for","tag-gone","tag-in","tag-jail","tag-lee","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prison","tag-time","tag-unpaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}