The agency responsible for attaching properties and executing court orders at the Justice Ministry has forced a prince to pay SR225,000 to a citizen after the check he wrote as recompense for taking over some of the man's possessions bounced.

A reliable source said the execution of the order followed the Saudi filing a law suit when the check he received bounced since the prince’s bank account did not have the balance to honor the check. The citizen also complained that the prince failed to pay him the amount through other means.

The executive arm of the court found that the prince had bank balance of only SR200,000. The prince had violated regulations prohibiting issue of bad checks.

The agency then confiscated some of the prince’s properties including a rest house and the balance in his account to settle what he owed to the citizen in line with the regulations and authority of the court.

“Execution of court verdicts to the restitution of the rights of deserving people without looking at the status of those who are involved in the issue is the real strength of the legal system in Islamic Shariah,” a source at the ministry said.

Since the approval of the system of court order execution early this year, all verdicts, without any exception, had been executed, the source said.

The Justice Ministry has appointed 297 judges in the agency operating in the general courts in most of the cities of the Kingdom. This is to ensure that all court orders against establishments or individuals, no matter how influential they may be, are executed.