SR35m flood-damaged check ordered renewed by court

JEDDAH – Quwaizah residents may not all be as impoverished as has been depicted of late, if the fat checks that were washed away in the flood in the district are any indication. A SR35 million check swept away by floodwaters last month was reinstated by a court order Saturday.The bank had earlier declined to void the certified check and redeposit the amount into the original account, requesting a court’s ruling to that effect. The man who wrote the check testified before the judge that the check