The National Housing Development Corporation Ltd (NHDC) yesterday lost the $260-million civil suit it brought against Danwill Construction Ltd, which is owned by east Kingston businessman Danhai Williams.

The suit was also filed against two former NHDC employees.

It was struck out yesterday because the NHDC failed to comply with court orders to provide certain documents.

One of the orders was for the NHDC to furnish expert reports from an accounting firm.

An application for judgment to be entered in favour of the defendants was made by attorneys-at-law Jacqueline Samuels Brown and Garth McBean.

The NHDC had sued Danwill construction and Warren Sibbles and Donovan Hill in 2004.

They were accused of unlawfully conspiring with others to injure and induce the NHDC to pay substantial sums of money for work that was not done on an Operation Pride project housing scheme.

The defendants had denied the claim. In October 2003, several persons, including Williams, were charged in connection with the allegations.

They were accused of defrauding the NHDC of $451 million. The charges were dropped in April this year because the the two main witnesses for the Crown were abroad.