A company accused a former accountant of manipulating accounts and embezzling 7,421 dirhams, while the Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Claims ruled to obligate the defendant to pay the company 15,421 dirhams in compensation for the damages it sustained.
In the details, a company filed a lawsuit against a former employee of it, demanding that he pay her 13,421 dirhams and the legal interest at 12%, and compensation in the amount of 5,000 dirhams with obligating him to pay fees and expenses, explaining that the defendant was working for her as an accountant and during his work embezzled sums of money. From the company, he was convicted under a penal verdict and fined 10,000 dirhams. In the ruling, the court stated that it was evident from the lawsuit papers and documents that the defendant was criminally convicted of the crime of embezzlement of sums of money belonging to the plaintiff, and that this act was the same on the basis of which the plaintiff relied in the civil lawsuit, and the court ruled to oblige the accountant to pay the company 7,421 dirhams, a value of what embezzlement and obligating him to pay the company 8000 dirhams in compensation for the damages he sustained.
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