Dubai: A court has returned a Dh30 million bribery case, involving Deyaar's former CEO and two managers, to Dubai Public Prosecution to add a new suspect to the case and to re-investigate.
The move was taken after an additional financial report was submitted during the last hearing
"After the panel of judges reviewed the additional report, it has been discovered that a British suspect, identified as A.S, was named in the report without being criminally charged and forwarded to court.
"The panel has decided to return the case to prosecutors for a reinvestigation and take action accordingly," said Presiding Judge Fahmi Mounir.
Representing Deyaar in civil rights, advocates Hassan Arab and Khalid Al Hamrani, of Al Tamimi Advocates, handed the court a plea in which they asked the court to add the British national, A.S, in the case as a suspect.
Soliciting bribes
Prosecutors charged Deyaar's 45-year-old American ex-CEO, Z.S, a 61-year-old Argentine manager, K.M and a Can-adian project manager, F.L, (who is at large) with soliciting Dh30 million in bribes from Thermo, a construction services company.
At the beginning of yesterday's hearing, advocates Ali Abdullah Al Shamsi and Eisa Bin Haidar, representing Z.S and K.M were ready to submit their defence and closing arguments to Judge Mounir, who returned the case to the Public Prosecution.
