NEW YORK (AP) — A multimillion-dollar New York court fight between Brunei's Prince Jefri Bolkiah and two British lawyers is wrapping up.
Lawyers for attorneys Faith Zaman Derbyshire and Thomas Derbyshire made closing arguments Monday. The prince's lawyers are set to sum up Tuesday in the five-week-long civil trial.
The prince is a brother of the sultan of oil-rich Brunei. He says the husband-and-wife British barristers exploited their access to his business affairs to steal about $7 million.
They say he owes them $12 million or more in promised fees and authorized everything they did.
Faith Derbyshire's attorney told jurors the prince was trying to play by his own rules, not "the rules that require you to tell the truth and comply with your agreements."
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