Dubai: A manager, who is detained for issuing Dh11 million worth of bounced cheques, has won a court’s permission to access the internet and settle his financial dispute with a bank.

The 51-year-old Indian executive manager was said to have issued four cheques worth Dh11 million against a commercial deal with an electronics company.

Prosecutors accused the manager of signing the cheques and issuing them to his countryman suspect [who is at large].

The latter was accused of endorsing the cheques to the pertinent bank although he knew that the cheques were un-cashable as there weren’t sufficient funds [at the time when the cheques were signed].

The manager’s lawyer, Mohammad Abdullah Al Redha, requested the Dubai Misdemeanours Court to grant his client permission to access the internet at his placeo of detention to be able to reach a settlement with the bank.

“My client is a manager and runs his business using the internet. Since he was detained in December he could not access the internet and has failed to manage his accounts and settle the case with the bank. We ask the court to grant him bail or allow him to access the internet while he is in detention to reach a settlement and have the case dropped against him,” advocate Al Redha told the court.

In what is believed to be a rare procedure, the court issued a decision allowing the suspect to have internet access in detention to be able to make the required transactions and settle his dispute with the bank.

Al Redha requested that his client be granted internet access more than once considering that the cheques’ amount is Dh11 million.

The absconding suspect is being tried in absentia.

The manager claimed to police interrogators that he issued the cheques to the absconding suspect against a business deal with the electronics company.

“I did not pay money to the company because the latter did not deliver the items agreed on. I gave the cheques to the other suspect in India,” claimed the manager.

The bank’s legal representative lodged a police complaint in which he mentioned that the absconding suspect endorsed the cheques to the bank despite the fact that there was insufficient funds and the account was closed.

The trial continues.