Mobily first revealed there were errors in its financial statements on November 3, 2014
ReutersDubaiSaudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority yesterday suspended trading in Mobily’s shares pending the mobile firm’s response to the preliminary findings of a regulator panel investigating its restatement of over two years of earnings. Mobily, part-owned by Abu Dhabi-listed Etisalat, restated 27 months of earnings to March 31, 2015, slashing its total profits over the period by nearly 1.76bn riyals ($470mn). Trading in Mobily’s shares was halted yesterday, the market regulator said in a bourse statement. This is pending a response from the company to preliminary decisions of Committees for the Resolution of Securities Disputes regarding claims from investors following a steep drop in its share price as a result of its revised earnings. Mobily first revealed there were errors in its financial statements on November 3, 2014, since when its shares have fallen 63%. The company had attributed its woes to the premature booking of revenue from wholesale broadband leases and mobile promotional campaigns and also made further changes to the way it accounts for some contracts and the depreciation of property and equipment.