Al-Marsad newspaper: The General Court in one of the regions decided to oblige a woman to return an amount of one million riyals to a person, who sued her following transferring the amount on her account, following receiving calls from a person who claimed that he owns an investment company in the field of forex and bitcoin, holding licenses to practice activity from the European Union, and that the company Represented by an institution licensed to do so in the Kingdom.
He submitted documents supporting his allegations, and asked the citizen to transfer the funds to be invested in, to the account of the institution representing his activity, to complete the investment procedures. An amount of two hundred thousand riyals, to the institution representing the investment company, then the local company returned to contact him to request an increase in his capital, so that the profits would be increased, and following several months, the amount reached one million riyals, and following he transferred the entire amount, and did not see any change in the site, he contacted the company And her representative, and she did not respond to any of his calls, which made it clear to him that he was a victim of fraud.
Procedures trial
While the citizen filed a complaint before the police station, presenting his evidence, the complaint was referred to the Public Prosecution, which summoned the owner of the establishment registered in the Kingdom for interrogation. Practicing any investment activity, and an order was issued to preserve the public right from the Public Prosecution, and the plaintiff filed a lawsuit before the General Court to claim his private right, according to Al-Watan newspaper.
Rule court Primary
The plaintiff filed a lawsuit before the General Court once morest the owner of the institution, to demand the recovery of his stolen money, and following the plaintiff submitted bank transfers and evidence of the validity of his claim, the owner of the institution denied what the plaintiff said, and made unfounded allegations, represented that the plaintiff transferred the amounts to her for the purpose of Purchasing products from websites, and that they are only an intermediary between the plaintiff and the websites, and there is no responsibility for them, and they have not provided evidence of their delivery of the amounts to the alleged websites or their role as an intermediary, and their legal capacity to engage in this activity, and accordingly the department ordered it to refund an amount of one million riyals to the plaintiff.
support Appeal
While the defendant, the owner of the establishment, submitted her objection to the primary judgment before the Court of Appeal, and following the Court of Appeal reviewed the objection submitted, the judgment issued by the Court of First Instance was upheld.