Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali’s father has denied he tried to sell the child actress for £200,000 in a News Of The World ‘Fake Sheikh’ sting. The paper claimed that Rafiq Qureshi, had demanded the sum from journalists posing as a wealthy family from Dubai to sell his daughter into adoption. However, the father has denied their claims in an interview with BBC News, calling their undercover operation “dirty” and accusing them of “making fun of our poverty”. "They tricked us into this fakery but we came out unscathed," Quereshi, a Mumbai carpenter, explained. “In the phone calls they said a wealthy Arab couple had been moved to see the plight of Rubina on al-Jazeera TV. The sheikh and his wife were very upset to see their plight and decided to help them out. And then we agreed to meet them." Mr Qureshi admitted meeting two men and a "memsaab", a term often used in India for a white woman, three times. “They made a call to someone, introducing him as the memsaab's husband, the sheikh saab, and asked me to talk to him. In broken Hindi he thanked me for letting Rubina come to Dubai to live. It was then it occurred to me they were making a deal on my child. I put the phone down and told them we were leaving the hotel. They played dirty with us, but we didn't accept any money from them. My daughter is not for sale."
