Dubai: Deyaar lawyers on Tuesday surprised the Dubai Appeal Court when they dropped a graft case against the company's Emirati ex-board member claiming it incurred no damages.
In an unexpected twist of events, lawyers representing Deyaar in the civil right case handed the Appeal Court's Presiding Judge Mustafa Al Shennawi a written waiver in which they dropped the case against 41-year-old former board member, S.A., after a settlement was reached.
The written waiver confirmed that Deyaar "did not incur any damages or losses."
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The judge proceeded to ask the court's secretary to record in the hearing's minutes that Deyaar's three lawyers had dropped the case following a settlement, as it had been established that no damages had been incurred.
The claimants also dropped the case against a second Emirati suspect, A.J.
The Court of First Instance had sentenced S.A., who is on bail, to three years in jail and fined him Dh115 million after he was found guilty of abusing his government job, causing loss to Deyaar and unlawfully pocketing Dh11.75 million in the process. A.J. was acquitted.
Presiding Judge Al Shennawi adjourned the case until November 2.
