Judicial sources told Arab News Monday that each court would deal with four defendants.

According to the sources, during the courts’ first sessions a list of charges against the accused will be presented by the Prosecution and Investigation Commission (PIC) as well as representation papers from the lawyers.

Sources close to the PIC said charges against the accused will include causing the death of many citizens and expatriates, receiving bribes in cash and kind such as cars, villas and pieces of land and destroying public properties.

The sources said the first court hearings will deal with the public right and added that all people affected by the crises have the right to file private right lawsuits against the defendants after the public right case against them has been resolved.

On Monday, the PIC handed over four files to each court based on their specialties. The sources also expected the courts to receive more case files on additional defendants in the coming days.

The four defendants whose files were submitted to the summary court included a former Jeddah municipality undersecretary for projects and constructions, the director of the department of roads who was also chairman of the committee for rains and floods, the director of the department supervising drainage projects and a businessman.

The sources said that one of the defendants had legally authenticated his confessions that he had received a bribe when implementing projects in Jeddah. His confessions were included in the list of charges submitted to the administrative court.

Case files are currently being scrutinized to separate the files of the defendants accused of direct involvement in the rain crises from those accused of other violations that the investigations committee discovered while investigating the disasters.

There were 88 people charged in the first Jeddah flooding crisis in 2009.