Al Ain court dismisses lawsuit regarding fraudulent sale of a number plate worth Dhs86,000 for lack of evidence

Al Ain Civil, Commercial and Administrative Cases Court dismissed a lawsuit concerning the sale of a car number plate for Dhs86,000 after it found that the entire lawsuit was based on incorrect facts and laws.

The court also ordered the plaintiff to pay the incurred expenses.

Earlier, a man filed a lawsuit in which he requested the court to obligate a car owner to return Dhs86,000 to him, pleading that he contacted the car owner to buy a car number that he offered for sale.

After the sale was completed, however, the owner of the number asked him to transfer half of the agreed amount as the price of the number plate to his account, so he transferred Dhs43,000 to the account of the owner of the number but he denied receiving the sum, the plaintiff said.

The owner of the number also asked him to transfer the other part of the price to an account that did not bear his name, so he transferred another Dhs43,000 accordingly, he added.

The owner of the number, however, did not fulfil his obligations as he neither transferred the number to his name, nor returned the amount already paid to him, he said, adding that this prompted him to file the lawsuit.

The case papers indicated that the supervising judge decided to appoint an accounting expert from the list of experts registered with Abu Dhabi Judicial Department to carry out the task.

The appointed expert concluded that no relationship was proven between the buyer and the owner of the number, and the buyer did not provide any document indicating the conclusion of contracts or agreements between the two parties to the dispute that clarified the obligations and rights of each party to the dispute.

The financial transactions in dispute were carried out through WhatsApp messages between the buyer and the holder of the phone number whose name and status were unknown, the expert said, adding that the messages showed an agreement for buying a car number where the buyer transferred a total of Dhs86,000 to the number owner’s account.

The court was satisfied with the expert’s report that no relationship had been proven between the buyer and the number owner and the buyer did not provide any document that indicated the conclusion of contracts or agreements between the two parties clarifying the obligations and rights of each party to the dispute.

The financial transactions in dispute were carried out through WhatsApp messages between the buyer and the holder of the phone number whose name and status were unknown, by agreeing on the buyer’s purchase of the car number, the court said.

Furthermore, the court found no evidence in the documents that could be used to prove this contract and therefore it was not proven that the owner of the number was liable to the buyer for any obligations or amounts that could be relied upon.

With this in mind, the entire lawsuit was based on incorrect facts and laws and was hereby dismissed.