The court ordered him to return 80,000 dirhams

An employee sells a company car for himself

The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance ordered an employee to pay to his previous employer 80,000 dirhams, the value of a car purchased by the plaintiff company, and registered in the name of the defendant, for the purpose of using it for the benefit of work, which the latter sold after the end of the working relationship between them for his own account.

In the details, a company filed a lawsuit against a former employee, in which it demanded to oblige him to pay her an amount of 110,000 dirhams and the legal interest at 12% from the date of filing the lawsuit until full payment, with fees and expenses including attorney fees, noting that she did, during the work of the plaintiff. He had to buy a car and hand it over to him to use in connection with the work, after which he sold it to his account.

While the report of the engineering expert specializing in cars, delegated by the court, showed that the relationship between the two parties to the dispute was a business relationship, and the time of the end of this relationship was in February 2020, and that the car in dispute was owned by the defendant, and that it had been subjected to previous traffic accidents, and it had a transmission malfunction, The value of its repair is estimated at 5,000 dirhams, and the value of the car under dispute on the date of termination of the defendant’s work with the plaintiff is estimated at 80,000 dirhams.

The court explained that it was evident from the lawsuit papers that the plaintiff paid the value of the car in dispute to the car dealership, for the benefit of the defendant, by virtue of a bank check, if he worked for it, to use it for the interest of the business, and registered it in his name, and the defendant did not provide evidence that he had paid the price of the car to the plaintiff or what contrary to that.

The court indicated that the defendant terminated his services with the plaintiff, who stated that she had bought the car for the purpose of the defendant using it if he worked with it for the interest of the work, which would be her right to recover its value, according to the market value at the time the defendant’s work ended with her, which was estimated by the delegated expert at 80 thousand Dirhams, and then the defendant is obligated to return the price of the car, according to its market value at the time of the end of the business relationship.

The court ruled to obligate the defendant to pay the plaintiff a compensation of 80,000 dirhams and interest is 4% from the date the judgment becomes final, and to oblige the defendant to pay fees and expenses, and it rejected other requests.

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