Court obligates person to pay Dhs44,000 to friend for misusing his credit card in Al Ain

Aya Al Deeb, Staff Reporter

Al Ain Court of First Instance obligated a man to pay his friend Dhs44,000, after the friend filed a lawsuit demanding that he pay Dhs58,000 because the appellee used his credit card, and borrowed Dhs10,000 from it.

In his lawsuit, the complainant also demanded that the appellee be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the case, indicating that his friend used the card in bad faith, which resulted in debts amounting to Dhs48,000 with the interest due on the card, besides withdrawing Dhs10,000 in cash, and then refused to return them.

The judge delegated an accounting expert, who explained that the complainant obtained the card with a credit limit of 25,000 and an annual interest rate of 3.5%.

The complainant presented two witnesses who testified that the he had the credit card so that his friend could benefit from it in the purchase and it was in the appelle’s possession who already used it.

WhatsApp messages between the two parties proved that the card was in the possession of the appellee and he was the one using it.

The expert indicated that the debt on the card amounted to Dhs34,000, of which the complainant paid Dhs32,000.

After receiving the expert's report, the complainant demanded that the appellee be obligated to pay him Dhs44,000, along with the fees, expenses, and lawyer's fees.

The court decided to make the complainant swear, and then decided that the appellee owed Dhs34,000 in addition to the Dhs10,000 to the complainant, which he received from him as a loan, and then obligated the appellee to pay Dhs44,000 in addition to paying the appropriate part of the expenses.