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Businessman questioned in three dud cheque cases

Egyptian businessman Nabeel Al Bushi is being questioned in three bounced-cheque cases by Dubai Public Prosecution after being acquitted in a fourth case against him, according to the Attorney General.

  • By Bassam Za'za' Senior Reporter
  • Published: 22:55 February 11, 2009
  • Gulf News

Dubai: Egyptian businessman Nabeel Al Bushi is being questioned in three bounced-cheque cases by Dubai Public Prosecution after being acquitted in a fourth case against him, according to the Attorney General.

"Al Bushi is currently in Public Prosecution custody ... we dismissed a recent case against him after he settled that cheque's amount with the claimant. Meanwhile, public prosecutors are still questioning him in three cases of cheques which he issued [that] bounced for insufficient funds," said Dubai's Attorney General Essam Eisa Al Humaidan in a media statement issued yesterday.

Lawyer Eisa Bin Haidar, of Eisa Bin Haidar Group of Advocates and Legal Consultants, who represents a number of Al Bushi's alleged victims, told Gulf News that a public prosecutor on Wednesday questioned Al Bushi in one of the cheque-bounce complaints that he lodged against the suspect earlier.

Al Humaidan said: "Al Bushi is under provisional detention for two reasons. Firstly, he is being questioned as a suspect for issuing [dud cheques] in Dubai.

"Secondly, ... Egypt's Attorney General has sent us via the Interpol an extradition request in the name of the defendant for violating financial laws in his country."

Bin Haidar pointed out that he lodged three police complaints against Al Bushi for reportedly issuing bad cheques worth $11 million (Dh40.40 million) to his clients.

"A client of mine, based in Egypt, informed me that the suspect settled a $1 million-worth [cheque bounce] case herein and started the bail procedures in order to leave to Canada. Thereafter, we lodged our complaints to the police," said Bin Haidar. Al Humaidan explained that according to Federal Law No 39 of 2006, concerning international judicial cooperation on security agreements with other countries, "a defendant is only extradited after serving his/her punishments or settling the complaints in the UAE."

"In order to turn Al Bushi over to the Egyptian auth-orities, we should put our legal remarks concerning the extradition request that will be automatically referred to the appeals court, then that court decides whether the suspect could be extradited or not. In such cases, a suspect has the right to appeal to the Cassation Court," Al Humaidan said.

Over the past weeks, Egyptian authorities have been investigating complaints from over 40 people, some being celebrities and footballers, claiming that Al Bushi had reportedly swindled them out of more than Dh734.57 million in return for big profits.

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