The Dubai Criminal Court yesterday had to postpone the Deyaar 1 and the Nakheel seafront cases because of the absence of the audit expert.
In the case of Deyaar 1, four persons are charged with profiteering Dh44.1 million and harming the company's interests by selling a plot of land owned by the company while they claimed it belonged to one of the defendants.
The court adjourned this case to August 15 because of the expert's absence, as defence lawyers wanted to discuss his report.
In the second case, the seafront company's lawyer presented the bill of the civil case against the defendants. Again, defence lawyers wanted to discuss the audit expert's findings. The court adjourned the case to August 17.
A defence lawyer objected to the repeated absence of the expert.
In a case heard on Monday, the lawyer of the fifth defendant in the Dubai Islamic Bank fraud case, RA (Pakistani), demanded that the court return case to the Public Prosecution.
He called for a reinvestigation into the case to involve the bank managers. None of the seven defendants was working in the finance or risk management departments of the DIB, said lawyer Habib Al Mulla.
Also, the case documents carry no signatures by the defendants, he added.
Al Mulla asked the court to let him inform those against whom he filed his civil case: former DIB board chairman MK; head of the bank commercial operations team MK; head of operation section MN; and former head of the risk section FH. The case was adjourned to August 9.