The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Claims ordered four defendants to pay a young man an amount of 64,558 dirhams, and 20,000 dirhams, as compensation for deceiving him and deluding him that they were officials of a construction company.
In the details, a man filed a lawsuit against four people, demanding that they pay an amount of 64,558 dirhams, and 25 thousand dirhams in compensation with obligating them to pay fees and expenses. A prison sentence was issued against them.
In the ruling, the court stated that it was established from the lawsuit papers and documents that the defendants were criminally convicted of fraud, as they had reached through an information technology means to seize for themselves the value of the financial sums owned by the victim, using fraudulent methods, and they contacted him by e-mail impersonating a name and a recipe They are not true that they are officials of a construction company that does not exist, and they offered him to work in the company and deluded him that he should transfer money to complete the appointment, visa and residency procedures.
The court indicated that the defendants confirmed that claim by sending a copy of the work contract to him, which led to deception and forced him to transfer sums of money to the defendants in installments totaling 64 thousand 558 dirhams through exchange companies. Outside the country after the execution of the penalty restricting freedom, and the penalty was amended before the Court of Appeal by merely imprisoning each of them for one year and supporting the deportation order.
The court confirmed that the act in which the defendants were convicted of seizing the money owned by the plaintiff, is the same act on which the plaintiff relied in establishing his present case, since the penal judgment, if it condemned the defendants for the proof of the legally prohibited act against him, is a necessary chapter in the occurrence of The act constituting the common ground between the criminal and civil lawsuits, and in the legal description of this act and its attribution to its perpetrator, and then, in this common matter, has the authority of the thing judged before this court.
The court ruled to obligate the defendants to pay the joint plaintiff an amount of 64,558 dirhams, and to compel them to pay the joint plaintiff 20,000 dirhams, Jaber’s compensation for the moral damages he sustained, and obliged them to pay the fees and expenses of the lawsuit, and rejected other requests.